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Peer reviewedGunnarsson, Britt-Louise – International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1995
This article discusses professional language and communication in real-life settings and provides a critical overview of research on language for specific purposes. Ideas for renewing this field of study are presented. (78 references) (MDM)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Jargon, Language Research, Language Styles
Gottlieb, Stephen S. – 1990
Legal writing is a unique form of composition. The legal style is characterized by a reliance upon nominalizations, archaisms, jargon, and foreign (especially French and Latin) terms and a scarcity of verbs and adverbs. Twelve judicial opinions, all on the subject of whether an advance degree should be considered marital property upon divorce,…
Descriptors: Court Judges, Court Litigation, Discourse Analysis, Jargon
