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An appraisal of plain language in the South African banking sector
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2016 The Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008 (CPA) came into full force in April 2011. An important corollary of this Act, and the National Credit Act 34 of 2005, is the obligation that consumer documents must be in plain language.
Cornelius, Eleanor
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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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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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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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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 SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEMS OF LEGALESE — A CASE STUDY OF WILLS
Comparative Legilinguistics, 2017 Legal English is well-known for its complexity which makes it incomprehensible for lay readers. The answer to the problem of legalese is the plain English movement, aiming at simplification of the language of documents.
Emilia BOLESZCZUK
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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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Cuadernos Electrónicos de Filosofía del Derecho, 2016 Resumen: Los documentos jurídicos y administrativos son difíciles de entender. ¿Hay forma de corregirlos? Una de las técnicas principales en aras de la claridad es la de hacer preguntas.
Javier Martínez Villarroya
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