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Legislating to communicate: Plain English guidelines explicated using the USA Patriot Act 2001
Victoria University Law and Justice Journal, 2011 In Lifting the Fog of Legalese, Joseph Kimble offered a set of guidelines for writing in clearer language. He does not provide a method for the interpretation and grammatical analysis of those guidelines. This article provides that analysis. Examples are
Edwin Tanner
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Legalese Or Lawspeak – Diversity Within The Unity
European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences, 2022 The article is devoted to the study of the state of the modern legal language. The authors analyze the phenomenon of legalese, which is typical for the speech of people of the legal profession, and also give its definition. The main characteristics and aspects of the legal language are investigated.
Ksenia V. Matsyupa +2 more
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Bilingual Parallel Corpora Featuring the Circum-Baltic Languages within the Russian National Corpus
Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications, 2019 The paper presents parallel corpora within the Russian National Corpus (RNC) featuring Circum-Baltic/Russian language pairs and describes the choice of texts, morphological annotation and possible applications.
Dmitri Sitchinava, Natalia Perkova
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Linguistic and Cultural Challenges in Communication and Translation in US-Sponsored HIV Prevention Research in Emerging Economies. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Linguistic and cultural differences can impede comprehension among potential research participants during the informed consent process, but how researchers and IRBs respond to these challenges in practice is unclear. We conducted in-depth interviews with
Donna Hanrahan +8 more
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TESTING OUT TRANSLATION UNIVERSALS IN LEGAL TRANSLATION
Comparative Legilinguistics, 2020 Research into ‘translation universals’ in legal translation is a relatively new field, which still needs to be expanded with further empirical studies. The few studies conducted so far fall into two main categories: a) analyses that explore the typical ...
Gianluca Pontrandolfo
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Teaching Commercial Lawyers Language Aspects of Drafting Contracts in English
Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2017 The article focuses on methods of teaching commercial lawyers, whose native language is not English, some linguistic aspects of drafting a contract in English.
Stupnikova Lada V.
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TRANSLATING THE “PREPOSITION + WHICH” CONSTRUCTION IN ENGLISH LEGAL TEXTS INTO INDONESIAN
Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian BudayaLegal text translation is challenging because of its emphasis on semantic and syntactic faithfulness, while ST structures do not always have corresponding TL equivalents. One of such structures is the English “preposition + which” (PW) construction. This
Doni Jaya
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Spanish Legalese Language Model and Corpora
, 2021 There are many Language Models for the English language according to its worldwide relevance. However, for the Spanish language, even if it is a widely spoken language, there are very few Spanish Language Models which result to be small and too general.
Gutiérrez-Fandiño, Asier +3 more
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Legalese versus plain language [PDF]
, 2001 Article looking at developments in legal drafting, considering traditional approaches, reluctance to change, pitfalls of change and the benefits of plain language.
Butt, Peter
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This essay introduces the themed cluster of articles, ‘Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI’. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in large language models capable of producing coherent discourse mimicking conversational interaction, is exerting unprecedented pressure on prevailing concepts of language, personhood, and the human ...
Webb Keane, Constantine V. Nakassis
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