| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 294 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Studies in corpus linguistics,
1388-0373 ;
volume 91
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Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 91.
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| Note |
Includes papers presented at a "workshop on corpora of legal English and their research possibilities held in May 2017 at Charles University in Prague, during ICAME 38." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
"Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer?" : english legal discourse past and present / Teresa Fanego & Paula Rodriguez-Puente -- English and Italian land contracts : a cross-linguistic analysis / Giuliana Diani -- Conditionals in spoken courtroom and parliamentary discourse in English, French, and Spanish : a contrastive analysis / Cristina Lastres-López -- Part-of-speech patterns in legal genres : text-internal dynamics from a corpus-based perspective / Ruth Breeze -- A comparison of lexical bundles in spoken courtroom language across time, registers, and varieties / Randi Reppen & Meishan Chen -- "It is not just a fact that the law requires this, but it is a reasonable fact" : using the noun that-pattern to explore stance construction in legal writing / Stanislaw Gozdz-Roszkowski -- Are law reports an "agile" or an "uptight" register? : tracking patterns of historical change in the use of colloquial and complexity features / Douglas Biber & Bethany Gray -- Interpersonality in legal written discourse : a diachronic analysis of personal pronouns in law reports, 1535 to present / Paula Rodriguez-Puente -- The evolution of a legal genre : rhetorical moves in british patent specifications, 1711 to 1860 / Nicholas Groom & Jack Grieve -- The representation of citizens and monarchy in acts of parliament in 1800 to 2000 : identifying social roles through collocations / Anu Lehto -- Drinking and crime : negotiating intoxication in courtroom discourse, 1720 to 1913 / Claudia Claridge. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Law -- Language -- Congresses.
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Law -- Language. |
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Law -- England -- Language -- Congresses.
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Law. |
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England. |
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English language -- Discourse analysis -- Congresses.
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English language -- Discourse analysis. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Subject |
Law. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Fanego, Teresa, editor.
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Rodríguez-Puente, Paula, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Corpus-based research on variation in English legal discourse. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019 9789027202352 (DLC) 2018047824 |
| ISBN |
9027262837 (electronic book) |
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9789027262837 (electronic book) |
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9789027202352 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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