Ekaterina R. Novikova, Oleg G. Polyakov, Nadezhda V. Hausmann-Ushkova
November 2020
Summary
In this paper, we examine the study and teaching of legal discourse in foreign language courses, presenting legal discourse as an interdisciplinary and institutional phenomenon.
We analyze the functions of legal discourse (e.g., prescriptive, informative, argumentative, declarative, etc.) and describe its key properties such as performativity and intertextuality.
We discuss how legal texts, including court decisions, regulations, contracts, and wills, are created in specialized legal language with distinctive structural, linguistic, and formatting features.
The paper highlights the roles of participants, context, goals, values, strategies, and genres in legal discourse and argues that discursive analysis is one of the most effective methods for teaching and learning legal English, as it links language form, function, and real-world communicative context.
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Novikova, E. R., Polyakov, O. G., & Hausmann-Ushkova, N. V. (2020). Legal discourse as a subject of study and teaching in the classroom in a foreign language specialty. Tambov University Review. Series: Humanities, 25(189), 31-38. https://doi.org/10.20310/1810-0201-2020-25-189-31-38