Why are Newspaper Law Reports so Hard to Understand?  

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Bowles, Hugo

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: English for Specific Purposes (Full Text) vol. 14 no. 3 (1995), page 201-222.
Fulltext: 14_03_Bowles.pdf (1.17MB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/ESP/14 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Newspaper law reports are an important resource for teachers of legal English because they provide material for the simultaneous practice of legal and linguistic skills. However, the comprehension of law report discourse is shown, in this paper, to be particularly difficult for the non-expert reader. Comparative discourse analysis of the way a particular case is reported in the All England Law Reports and the law report section of The Times and The Independent shows that the discourse structure of the newspaper law report is not adequately signalled by the linguistic conventions in the text. This produces a complex conceptual structure which makes considerable cognitive demands on the non-expert. Pedagogical suggestions are made for dealing with the textual and cognitive difficulties arising from the analysis.

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