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Navigating complexity in plain English: A longitudinal analysis of syntactic and lexical complexity development in L2 legal writing

Journal of Second Language Writing, 2023
J Elliott Casal, Yiran Xu
exaly   +2 more sources

Christopher Williams, The Impact of Plain Language on Legal English in the United Kingdom

ASp, 2023
R. Breeze
openaire   +2 more sources

Easy Language – Plain Language – Easy Language Plus [PDF]

, 2020
This book shows how accessible communication, and especially easy-to-understand languages, should be designed in order to become instruments of inclusion.
Maaß, Christiane
core   +3 more sources

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, Birgitta Guðmundsdóttir, Olga M. Cilia, Sigrún Steingrímsdóttir   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Good Law or Bad Law? Need for General Principles on Plain Urdu Translation of Legislative Documents in Pakistan

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
doaj   +2 more sources

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
doaj   +1 more source

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, Muhammad Afzaal, Hessah Saleh Aldayel   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Risks of Using “Language Relief” and Plain Language Principles in the Process of Applying Tax Law – Selected Issues

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
doaj   +1 more source

Rights of Nature: What Are They? A Plain Language Legal Guide for Earth Citizens

SSRN Electronic Journal
Stepan Wood
openaire   +2 more sources

The plain language of legal documents as the Rule of Law requires : international and national experience

“International Humanitarian University Herald. Jurisprudence”
M. Afanasieva
openaire   +2 more sources