Investigating English Legal Genres in Academic and Professional Contexts |
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| Author:
| Tessuto, Girolamo |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4438-4205-1 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2012 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $128.95 |
Book Description:
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"A very inspiring, insightful and comprehensive study of some of the most intriguing legal genres undertaken by a well-established specialist, both in law as well as language, which provides a rare experience for those interested in the intricacies of legal expression." - Vijay K. Bhatia, Emeritus Professor, City University of Hong Kong; President, Asia-Pacific LSP and Professional Communication Association 'Investigating English Legal Genres in Academic and Professional Contexts is a...
More Description"A very inspiring, insightful and comprehensive study of some of the most intriguing legal genres undertaken by a well-established specialist, both in law as well as language, which provides a rare experience for those interested in the intricacies of legal expression." - Vijay K. Bhatia, Emeritus Professor, City University of Hong Kong; President, Asia-Pacific LSP and Professional Communication Association 'Investigating English Legal Genres in Academic and Professional Contexts is a welcome addition [...] first of all because of its reliance on corpus-based data and secondly because it provides reliable analyses of both ubiquitous but less often studied text types as well as ones that are studied more often. [....] This book provides important information based on analyses with much-debated but widely accepted methods for both native speakers and non-native speakers of English in the field of law. The author shows shrewd insight and an ability to identify relevant issues in this line f study in his choice of the three genres he analyses: case notes/briefs, which are not often studied probably because they are typical of the legal domain; abstracts to academic papers, which have attracted linguists' attention more often and have been thoroughly analysed, although not only those appearing in law journals and publications; and book reviews, which perhaps represent the middle ground as far as the volume of previous research goes. The book's overall approach builds on models from discourse analysis, genre analysis, rhetoric and linguistic pragmatics.' -