Publications
Publication details [#12664]
Trosborg, Anna. 1997. Contracts as social action. In Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, Per Linell and Bengt Nordberg. The Construction of Professional discourse. (Language in Social Life). Longman. pp. 54–75.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
The linguistic realization of regulative acts is compared in three genres: English contract law, corresponding law texts and conversational English. External factors of the social situation are given as explanations for the differences between the discourses.