Specific Features of Legal Discourse: Study and Interpretation
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https://doi.org/10.55640/eijps-06-03-30Keywords:
Legal discourse, legal language, legal genreAbstract
The article examines the distinctive features of legal discourse and the methods by which these features can be studied and interpreted. Legal texts are treated here as professional communicative practice with its own vocabulary, syntax, genre system and pragmatic purposes. The analysis combines genre theory, speech act theory and the findings of forensic linguistics. On this basis the article proposes a three-level analytical model that connects the formal properties of legal texts with their institutional functions and with practical problems of interpretation and translation.
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