期刊名称：Academic Journal of Business, Administration, Law and Social Sciences
印刷版ISSN：2410-3918
电子版ISSN：2410-8693
出版年度：2015
卷号：1
期号：3
出版社：IIPCCL
摘要：The article with the title ‘’Modern tendencies and characteristics of Legal Writing in Englishfor Specific Purposes’’ deals with the study of legal writing and its teaching in professionallinguistic contexts, where writing is considered as a means of communication between twocommunities that have different languages, but share the same knowledge or expertise. Thearticle describes some key features of legal writing as part of Writing for Specific Purposes.The historical background gives a hint on how the legal writing was considered at itsbeginnings, how it evolved and how it was taught through years. It also discusses thecontroversial issue whether writing should be taught together with the legal reasoning ornot, taking into consideration the fact that the process of writing itself for most students isconsidered to be of a more complicated nature than the process of the legal reasoning. Thecharacteristics of legal writing describe the specificities and the intricacies that the legal jargonimplies, the archaic words, wordiness and the awkward sentence structure. Modern tendenciesplace emphasizes on another aspect of legal writing nowadays; that of writing in Plain Englishwhich implies a breaking of the cycle of the complicated writing toward a simplified way ofwriting, through a tiring and long process of writing where the reader is at the center of it.This means that every writing has been produced having the reader in mind implying thatthe general public that does not have a legal background should be able to understand it.
关键词：Legal writing; professional context; Plain English; Legalese; Writing for Specific;Purposes.
