Week 11: Language of Legal Docs
Legal language comes across and influences different segments of the society. Some of them may be law knowing persons and others may not .The communication between the law- giver and men of law is one say communication. It can be found in the shape of statute. The language of the statute is most technical and legislators have very little to do with it but drafter take care that it is communicative of, the law-givers intention.
Language of Law or Legal English is a unique register variety with its idiosyncratic linguistic features. Unlike other register varieties, langugae of law is not meant for everyday communication. It is difficult to unertand and one needs special training in legal regiter before he can take it on.
Course Material
- Week 1: Introduction
- Week 2: Stylistics - Concepts n Theories
- Week 3: Stylistic Foregrounding
- Week 4: Text Types
- Week 5: Register n Genre
- Week 6: Genre, Register n Language Teaching
- Week 7: Levels of Stylistic Analysis
- Week 8: Levels of Stylistic Analysis
- Week 9: Language of Advertising
- Week 10: Language of Recipe
- Week 11: Language of Legal Docs
- Week 12: Language of Religion
- Week 13: Language of Conversation
- Week 14: Language of Commentary
- Week 15: Language of Newspaper
- Week 16: Literary vs Nonliterary Text
- Reference Books
- Chapters 17
- Department English
- Teacher
Hafiz Ahmad Bilal
