Popularity of Latin and Law French in Legal English
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21784707 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chuanyou Yuan (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies), Shaomin Zhang (0000-0001-9105-2516, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies), Qingshun He (0000-0002-6875-4795, Sun Yat-sen University) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 151-174 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-10 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguistics and the Human Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1742-2906 • E-ISSN: 1743-1662 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1558/lhs.37190 |
| OpenAlex | W3007425303 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
This paper is a pilot study of the Language of the Law (or Legal English), a subsidiary of a broader research project on the Disciplinary English (DE), from the perspective of SFL. It starts with reviewing Halliday’s seven features or difficulties of scientific English that are presumably shared by Legal English. Then, the features of legal English identified by Forensic linguists, Mellinkoff and Tiersma among others are also perused. Subsequently, this paper focuses on and examines a particular feature, that is, the alleged ‘popular use' of Latin and Law French in contemporary legal English. We build a small corpus consisting of journal articles (or academic papers) and legal textbooks to examine their frequency in the corpus and analyze their uses and users (authors and readers) by means of instantiation. The findings include Latin and law French are still active in legal text and they tend to occur more in legal journals than in legal textbooks. The findings are of implication to the teaching and learning of legal English
Black letter law · Comparative law · Discipline · Empirical legal studies · English law · International Legal English Certificate · Latin Americans · Legal profession · Legal research · Legal writing · Linguistics · Political science · Popularity · Private law · Sociology · Comparative and International Law Studies · Computer Science · Law · Legal Education and Practice Innovations · Philosophy · Second Language Learning and Teaching · Artificial Intelligence
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |