Corpus-based research on variation in English legal discourse / edited by Teresa Fanego, Paula Rodríguez-Puente.

Includes papers presented at a "workshop on corpora of legal English and their research possibilities held in May 2017 at Charles University in Prague, during ICAME 38."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer?" : english legal discourse past and present / Teresa Fanego & Paula Rodriguez-Puente -- English and Italian land contracts : a cross-linguistic analysis / Giuliana Diani -- Conditionals in spoken courtroom and parliamentary discourse in English, French, and Spanish : a contrastive analysis / Cristina Lastres-López -- Part-of-speech patterns in legal genres : text-internal dynamics from a corpus-based perspective / Ruth Breeze -- A comparison of lexical bundles in spoken courtroom language across time, registers, and varieties / Randi Reppen & Meishan Chen -- "It is not just a fact that the law requires this, but it is a reasonable fact" : using the noun that-pattern to explore stance construction in legal writing / Stanislaw Gozdz-Roszkowski -- Are law reports an "agile" or an "uptight" register? : tracking patterns of historical change in the use of colloquial and complexity features / Douglas Biber & Bethany Gray -- Interpersonality in legal written discourse : a diachronic analysis of personal pronouns in law reports, 1535 to present / Paula Rodriguez-Puente -- The evolution of a legal genre : rhetorical moves in british patent specifications, 1711 to 1860 / Nicholas Groom & Jack Grieve -- The representation of citizens and monarchy in acts of parliament in 1800 to 2000 : identifying social roles through collocations / Anu Lehto -- Drinking and crime : negotiating intoxication in courtroom discourse, 1720 to 1913 / Claudia Claridge.

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