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‘Plain’ legal language by courts: mere clarity, an expression of civic friendship or a masquerade of violence? [PDF]
The Theory and Practice of Legislation, 2022 In the Netherlands over the last decade, a range of initiatives have been launched by individual courts, mostly on their own initiative, to make court rulings more comprehensible to average citizens. At the outset, at least from the ‘internal point of view’ of legal practitioners, it might seem striking that these initiatives predominantly address the ...
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Plain Legal Language as accessibility tool for translators
IVITRA Research in Linguistics and LiteratureAbstract The accessibility of legal language has become an essential component of social integration for all citizens. Likewise, for any legal translator, understanding legal language will be a crucial first step in overcoming any communication barrier.
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Syntactic complexity in legal translated texts and the use of plain English: a corpus-based study
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 This study compared the linguistic difficulty of legal translated texts with the syntactic complexity of native English legal writings in order to demonstrate the statistically significant differences between the two big datasets.
Xiaowen Lin +2 more
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Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2021 The level of communicativeness of official letters in the field of tax law leaves much to be desired. The article concerns the consequences of the application of “Language Relief” in the practice of applying tax law by the National Revenue Administration.
Woltanowski Piotr
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A simplification of the Consumer Rights Act. Plain legal language and legal language
Oblicza Komunikacji, 2021 The article examines the idea of plain legal language as a standard in creating comprehensible and effective communication in legislative acts. It features plain legal language techniques and tools used to tackle the visual and linguistic layer of legal texts.
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Curious Legal Conditionals [PDF]
, 2011 The paper examines the use of the modal verb SHALL in the if clauses of conditionals found in legal English. The study traces the history of such usages and compares them to two uses of WILL attested in the same grammatical environment: a temporal use ...
Berezowski, Leszek
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Reviewing Argument Schemes for Legal Arguments of Statutory Interpretation
Opinión Jurídica, 2022 The current legal paradigm assumes that legal decisions must be justified. Judges use arguments as tools to accomplish this justification. Thus, this research presents an analysis to explain and illustrate arguments of statutory interpretation, given ...
Eduardo Brandão Nunes
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Comparative Legilinguistics, 2019 The aim of this paper is to present LEX.CH.IT, a corpus for micro-diachronic linguistic investigations of Swiss normative acts in Italian. Italian has a peculiar position as an official minority translation language within the Swiss institutional system.
Paolo CANAVESE
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Innovations in science popularization (in on-line legal texts) [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 The article aims at analysis of popularization tactics as means of science popularization. The authors see these tactics as an innovative means of popularization of science and education development in the professional sphere.
Pervukhina Svetlana, Demchenko Valintina
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PLAIN-LANGUAGE APPROACH IN LEGISLATIVE DRAFTING: A PERSPECTIVE FROM POLAND
Comparative Legilinguistics, 2019 The purpose of this research is to explore plain-language postulates reflecting on legal drafting assumptions since legal acts should be precise, clear and express with no doubts the intention of the legislator.
Natalia ZYCH
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