Main features of legal English
19 Setembro 2018, 10:00 • EDUARDA MELO CABRITA
Main features of legal English
- main world systems
- Common Law, Civil Law, Hybrid systems
Lexical features of legal English
- Latinisms
- French terms
- archaic language
- technical vs semi-technical terms
- doublets, triplets, and other word strings
- cognates
- legal jargon, legalese, plain English