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Publication details [#50193]
Kurzon, Dennis. 1997. 'Legal language': varieties, genres, registers, discourses. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 7 (2) : 119–139.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
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Place, Publisher
Blackwell Publishers
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper argues that an exploration of the use of terms such as 'variety', 'genre', 'register' and 'discourse', explains prevalent issues in research on legal language and on language for special purposes in general. The term 'legal discourse' appears to most accurately describe the discussed phenomenon.