Publications

Publication details [#51044]

Cao, Deborah. 2009. Illocutionary acts of Chinese legislative language. Journal of Pragmatics 41 (7) : 1329–1340.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

illocution | law | legalese | pragmatics

Language as a subject

Chinese | Chinese, Taiwanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This study illustrates and compares the pragmatic differences of the Chinese legal language employed in the Chinese speaking jurisdictions of China and Taiwan. It indicates a universalism in legal texts' illocutionary functions and the inclination to employ performatives and fossilized words in legal texts.