There are many different ways in which modern Corpus Linguistics can be used to enrich
and broaden our understanding of legal discourse. Based on the central principle of co …

Construction grammar (CxG) initially arose as a usage-based alternative to nativist
theoretical accounts of language, and remains to this day strongly associated with cognitive …

It appears that we know surprisingly little about how judges frame linguistically the rationale
behind their decisions and how such texts are structured. Using the concept of rhetorical …

This chapter reviews the applications of corpora in legal translation studies (LTS), focusing
on the approaches taken and highlighting specific examples. The review stresses the main …

This article presents a novel framework for examining how emotional labor is performed
linguistically. Bringing together Arlie Hochschild's pioneering sociological work and insights …

In this paper, I introduce a situational approach to the study of linguistic complexity. As
opposed to most research on linguistic complexity, which has focused on the grammatical …

Legal discourse is widely assumed to be resistant to change, and indeed legislative
documents are extremely conservative with fixed and formulaic structures. However, recent …

Textual standardization is the expected route for documents in specialized disciplinary
fields, particularly for legal documents. In this paper, however, we question this …

This paper explores a novel methodological approach to the study of prescriptive language
norm dissemination. It reports the result of a study which uses Corpus-Assisted Discourse …

Abstract [eng] In the project Bwrite (Academic Writing in the Baltic States: Rhetorical
Structures through Cultures and Languages), we aim to address the lack of an empirically …