Information flow of legislative sentences from the viewpoint of a cognitive 2-move structure

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angličtina
Original language name
Information flow of legislative sentences from the viewpoint of a cognitive 2-move structure
Original language description
The communicative purpose of the language of law is clarity, unambiguity and precise interpretation. To include all eventualities in one sentence and keep the text condensed at the same time results in complex, unusual and sometimes obscure sentence structures, having not infrequently the opposite effect. Following up a four move-structure applied by Swales (1981) to various scientific articles, Bhatia's analyses of parliamentary provisions have revealed that legislative sentences can be formed into a 2-move structure. "The cognitive structuring displays a characteristic interplay of the main provisionary clause and the qualifications inserted at various syntactic openings within the structure of a sentence." (Bhatia, 1982) Effort to make legislative sentences precise poses a requirement for such qualifications to be inserted next to the word they are intended to qualify, which inevitably leads to syntactic discontinuities and the interruption of the flow of information.
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Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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