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Publication details [#31250]

Bowles, Hugo. 2002. Why are newspaper law reports so hard to understand? English for Specific Purposes 14 (3) : 201–222.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse analysis | legalese, comprehension of | newspaper report

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0889-4906 0021-9924

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Comparative discourse analysis of newspaper law reports shows that their discourse structure is not adequately signalled by the linguistic conventions in the text, thus making considerable cognitive demands on the non-expert.