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A Text Type-Specific Approach to Plain Legal Language and its Implications on Machine Translation
Pázmány Law Review, 2023 Most characteristics of the legal language go against the idea of plain legal language. However, there are huge differences regarding the extent to which these characteristics are manifested in various legal text types.
Dorka Balogh
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Skilur almenningur íslenskt lagamál?
Orð og Tunga, 2022 Text comprehension of Icelandic legislative texts was studied qualitatively by interviewing 46 Icelandic speakers individually. The participants read parts of the Icelandic Inheritance Act no. 8/1962 and of the Icelandic Children’s Act no.
Ari Páll Kristinsson +3 more
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University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature, 2023 The article is written against the backdrop of the plain language movement that made its way to the legal Language almost in the 1970s. Almost all countries work differently to make legal documents readable and understandable for laypersons.
Amna Anwar, Hazrat Umar
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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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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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