The translation of law has played an integral part in the interaction among nations in history
and is playing a greater role in our increasingly interconnected world today. The book …

Investigating Specialized Discourse is a shortened and revised textbook edition of the
monograph Specialized Discourse (2003). This book analyses the various features of …

Whenever native and non-native speakers “employ English in a restricted range of social
and thematic areas”(Gramley & Pätzold, 1992, p. 246), they use it in order to communicate …

Arabic-English-Arabic Legal Translation provides a groundbreaking investigation of the
issues found in legal translation between Arabic and English. Drawing on a contrastive …

This book offers an innovative, corpus-driven approach to historical legal discourse. It is the
first monograph to examine textual standardization patterns in legal and administrative texts …

The paper deals primarily with the classification of what is known in LSP as 'legal language'.
Despite considerable consensus concerning the topics included under this label, there is a …

This article presents the results of an investigation into information-seeking behaviour of
trainee translators, observed during translation of a legal text from English into Polish. The …

This paper is concerned with the language used in legal speech acts in legislative texts in
the field of English Contract Law as the object of study. It points to a division of legal English …

The book explores some of the intricacies, dilemmas, and idiosyncrasies of the Chinese
language used in the legal context, analyzing linguistic matters in both monolingual Chinese …

Law relies on language and particularly it relies on the performative nature of language use.
Legal effects and legal consequences are commonly obtained by merely uttering certain …