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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Legal language"”.
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The translation and certification of legal text: parliament of the Republic of South Africa as a case study
… the background of the history of South African languages, South African Parliament, legislative framework and the history of legal language translation. The study emphasised the fundamental role played by second-language translation in the legislative process. Even though the indigenous …
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The legal fact as a work of art : artificial intelligence and the pragmatics of legal interpretation
Modern legal theory rests on a premise that in revealing a legal concept we are revealing reality. This traditional (Kantian) approach is reflected most acutely in legal positivism. The position of the legal positivist is that of law as constitutive of facts. The fact is our description of …
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Problems and strategies in translating legal texts from arabic to english
… and strategies involved in the translation of legal texts, particularly those related to Islamic Law, hereinafter referred to as ‘Shariah’, from Arabic to English. The study investigates the unique challenges posed by the legal language, explores various strategies employed to overcome these …
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<i>Dredging Day </i>and a trauma-informed reading of <i>Whereas</i> by Layli Long Soldier
… section examines Whereas in the context of the language used to build narratives of apology. The chapter offers close readings of poems in Whereas to reveal the instability of legal language and deconstruct the failures of apology. The second chapter considers the work of contemporary trauma …
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Is your accent guilty? The experiences of foreign born domestic violence victims within the English criminal justice system and criminal justice professionals’ perceptions of these victims
… such as the elevated speech style, the legal language used and the lawyers’ lack of recognition of their language limitations. Semi-structured interviews with the FBDVVs and key informants such as ex-Magistrates, charity manager, domestic violence case worker, interpreter and charity …
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What a Drag! Censorship and the Criminalization of Alternative Gender Performance
… and morality-based policymaking, rely on vague legal language and selective enforcement to suppress gender nonconformity while maintaining plausible deniability of discriminatory intent. Despite significant scholarship on LGBTQIA+ rights, policy diffusion, and free speech, little research has …
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The signification of speech and writing in the work of Charles Dickens
… differing attitudes of Bakhtin and Derrida to language, writing and literature. A purely literary history is rejected, in favour of asking socially and historically grounded questions about the workings of language in selected texts. Then, the communication model of language, proposed by Roman …
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An investigation into formal and functional characteristics of qualifications in legislative writing and its application to English for academic legal purposes.
… legislative writing as a "sub-variety “of legal language and provides an overview of the controversies surrounding the way it is written and the problems it poses to its readers. Chapter two emphasizes the limitations of the available work on the description of language-varieties for the …
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Law’s Technicality and Rich Evaluative Significances: Why (English) Law Is Not a Deontic System
… by controversies over whether particular legal categorisations such as contractual obligation and duty of care genuinely ‘legally obligate’ (or whether breaches of such standards are ‘wrongs’). General jurisprudence, meanwhile, entertains an equally persistent debate over the nature of …
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Citizenship and social status in the western Mediterranean from the later Roman Empire to the early Middle Ages : the case of Spain
… broad, and it seeks to highlight how social and legal distinctions which characterised the later Roman society survived within the early Middle Ages. Two key elements receive a particular attention in this study: first, the evolution of the Roman concept of dignitas, seen as a major source of …
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DIRECT ENFORCEMENT ON THE HIGH SEAS: THE STRATEGY OF THE SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY
… an enforcement organization through the use of legal language, symbols and imagery. It also selects targets which can be accused of violating the law, and gathers evidence to support these accusations. Once it has identified such a target, the SSCS interferes with the operations and attempts to …
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Pledges and Agreements in Old English - A Semantic Field Study
… of the study is the corpus of Anglo-Saxon legal texts in which pledges played an important part. Pledges occur in collocation with concepts such as oaths (að) and sureties (borg), but there are important differences in function and linguistic usage between the terms. One important aspect of …
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‘hwonne habbe we ðonne ne gemotad?’; Narrative Strategies in Tenth- and Eleventh-Century English Property Disputes
This thesis examines the language and narrative strategies employed by tenth and eleventh- century charter draftsmen in the composition of vernacular lawsuit documents. It poses the question: on what authority did late Anglo-Saxon property disputes close or remain closed, arguing that the document …
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Studies in Medieval Irish Legal Ancillary Material
… in medieval Irish manuscripts are a number of legal texts, which generated a broad range of glosses and commentary. Focus has hitherto generally been on the older strata of material and their immediate glossing. This dissertation begins with in-text glossing, and goes beyond the immediate …
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Don't get taken for a ride! : designing and Implementing effective autonomous vehicle regulation in Toronto, Ontario
… AV regulation. Firstly, the government needs legal capacity to regulate in a given area. Toronto, for example, is responsible for overseeing local rideshare company activity. The remaining four elements all relate to human resources. Interviews show Toronto's bureaucrats believe they have a …