Publications

Publication details [#54783]

Sin, King Kui and Shifeng Ni. 2011. A matrix of legislative speech acts for Chinese and British statutes. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (1) : 375–384.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language and culture | language use | law | legal text | speech act

Language as a subject

Chinese | English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This synchronic comparison between Chinese and British statutes and diachronic comparison between the original and current versions of Chinese statutes on intellectual property rights, provides (and compares) a matrix of legislative speech acts in Chinese and British statutes.