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Some Insights into Translating and Teaching English for Specific Purposes
HermesThis short paper aims to highlight and concisely explore – but not address in depth -some aspects related to translating and teaching English for specific purposes (mainly English for Legal Purposes) The following questions will be briefly considered ...
Halina Sierocka
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Reproductive Health, 2021 Plain language summary South Africa has one of the world’s most progressive legal frameworks for abortion, yet it’s not uncommon for women to struggle to access safe abortion services.
Oluwaseyi Dolapo Somefun +2 more
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Legal Certainty: Pro et Contra
Наукові записки НаУКМА: Юридичні науки, 2018 The question addressed by this article is whether it is possible to state that European adherence to legal certainty and American legal uncertainty make up the characteristics of the two distinct legal systems (common law and civil law).
Yuliia Matvieieva
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Overcoming Language Barriers in Contracts – A South African Perspective
BRICS Law JournalLanguage forms the basis of written contracts, but the use of language may also function as a barrier to contracting parties, particularly when the parties are not proficient in the commercial language of choice, such as English in the case of South ...
M. van Eck
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JoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised Translation, 2015 In 1973, a team of translators headed by Clive Meredith was mandated to translate the revised Civil Code of Quebec (CCQ) and the comments thereon. Traditionalists in the legal community attacked the plain language translation, and the entire project was
Barbara McClintock
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About the Plain English movement [PDF]
Zbornik Radova: Pravni Fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2020 Creating law is a complex process. It stems from the constant learning and refinement of knowledge of law - both theory and practice; from recognizing social reality and attitudes and intentions of members of society, but also knowing the state ...
Ćorić Dragana M.
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Plain language and the law: rethinking legal information for vulnerable people in Australia [PDF]
, 2019 This thesis evaluates the effectiveness of plain language legal information resources for vulnerable people from the perspective of legal service providers working in the community legal sector in Australia.Plain language legal information aims to improve individuals’ access to the legal system.
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IAE Journal of Research and DevelopmentIn recent years, public interest in the understanding of judgments and rulings pronounced by courts has been on the rise. On the other hand, complicated legal expressions have long been a subject for complaints, as they impede access to justice, and ...
Collines Kipkorir Bore +2 more
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Representing effective communication and plain language in legal contexts: A critical discourse study [PDF]
, 2020 This thesis explores problems with legal communication as a social problem in which discourse and the shared beliefs of groups play a crucial role. It concludes that plain language is a problematic construct in the law because there are costs of systematically misrepresenting an intention to communicate effectively as the solution to a complex set of ...
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ElectronicsPlain Language seeks to enhance the clarity and comprehensibility of legal and administrative communication; while Natural Language Processing (NLP) offers promising tools for assessing text complexity, most Plain Language classification studies focus ...
István Üveges
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