Legislative Writing: A case of Neglect in EA/OLP Courses  

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Bhatia, Vijay K.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: English for Specific Purposes (Full Text) vol. 8 no. 3 (1989), page 223 - 238.
Fulltext: 08_03_Bhatia.pdf (995.64KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/ESP/8 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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This paper begins by establishing the need to prioritize language skills in legal education and then gives a brief overview of the English for Academic/Occupational Legal Purposes (EA/OLP) situation, concentrating particularly on the recent preoccupation with the use of simplified and abridged versions of legal cases in many of the available EA/OLP programmes to the neglect of legislative use of language. It then argues for a need to link the study of cases with legislative writing on theoretical as well as practical grounds. In principle, cases are attempts to interpret the facts of the outside world in terms of general abstract principles known to specialists in law as ratio decidendi, whereas the essence of legislative interpretation lies in an attempt to understand the general abstract rules which in themselves are nothing but attempts to account for the facts of the world. This is reflected not only in the discourse and cognitive structuring in the two genres but also in the tasks that are normally assigned to law students in their academic and professional courses. The two processes, therefore, are complementary to each other and any attempt to neglect one at the cost of the other is likely to leave the learners somewhat less than proficient in the use of legal language in the advancement of their professional career. Worse still, it may create in them a kind of awe about legislative writing which they may find difficult to get over for the rest of their careers.

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