Le Cheng

Le Cheng

List of John Benjamins publications for which Le Cheng plays a role.

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Gong, Mingyu, Winnie Cheng and Le Cheng. 2020. Development of deontic modality in Chinese civil laws: A corpus study. Pragmatics and Society 11:3, pp. 337–362
In legislative texts, deontic modality helps define rights, privileges, obligations, and responsibilities. Based on a corpus of Chinese civil laws from 1949 to 2015, the study investigates the development of deontic modality in Chinese civil legislative discourse and examines the variations of… read more | Article
This study aims to deal with the relationship between terminological variation and ideology by examining the system of terminology and the defined individual terms in data protection legislation. With two self-compiled corpora incorporating data protection laws in the United States and the European… read more | Article
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The present study deals with the relationship between terminology evolution and legal development. Altogether 100 Chinese legal terms are randomly collected from Chinese statutes in order to examine the legal development in China from 1912 to the present. The results demonstrate that terminology… read more | Article
Cheng, Le and King Kui Sin. 2008. A court judgment as dialogue. Dialogue and Rhetoric, Weigand, Edda (ed.), pp. 267–281
Dialogue is of cardinal importance in maintaining the interpersonal relationship between judges and facilitating judgment drafting as collaborative problem solving. It is also important for the check and balance between courts and the legislature. A court judgment can therefore be taken as a… read more | Article