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Legislative Language

Legislative Language is a specialized form of legal discourse that constitutes the precise, authoritative, and normative mode of expression used in the formulation of statutes and bills, distinguished by its obligatory force, syntactic rigidity, and technical terminology within the domain of legislative drafting.

164

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6.2K

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239

Authors

111

Institutions

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2017–2026

25

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Publications

164

Legislators and Interpreters: On Modernity, Post-Modernity and Intellectuals.

David Zaret, Zygmunt Bauman · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 1988 · 616 citations

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<b>Language and the law.</b> Ed. by John Gibbons. (Language in social life series.) London &amp; New York: Longman, 1994. Pp. 476.

Edwin Battistella · Language · 1996 · 242 citations

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Congress is a “They,” not an “It”: Legislative intent as oxymoron

Kenneth A. Shepsle · International Review of Law and Economics · 1992 · 194 citations

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Multilingual Sentiment Analysis: A New Approach to Measuring Conflict in Legislative Speeches

Sven‐Oliver Proksch, Will Lowe, Jens Wäckerle et al. · Legislative Studies Quarterly · 2018 · 182 citations

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Tracing the Flow of Policy Ideas in Legislatures: A Text Reuse Approach

John Wilkerson, David A. Smith, Nicholas Stramp · American Journal of Political Science · 2015 · 155 citations

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Authors

239

  1. VK
    Vijay K. Bhatia

    City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China

    3 publications · 109 citations

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  2. LM
    Lawrence M. Solan

    Brooklyn Law School, United States

    3 publications · 58 citations

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  3. JF
    John F. Manning

    Argonne National Laboratory, United States

    3 publications · 98 citations

    3

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  4. EG
    Eugenia Giraudy

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    3 publications · 154 citations

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  5. MG
    Matthew G. Burgess

    University of Colorado Boulder, United States

    2 publications · 75 citations

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Institutions

111

  1. Brooklyn Law School

    Brooklyn, United States

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    175 citations

  2. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    134 citations

  3. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    354 citations

  4. Loyola University Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    173 citations

  5. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    105 citations

  6. University of Illinois Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    256 citations

  7. Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques

    Florence, Italy

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    175 citations

  8. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    481 citations

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Venues

  1. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 14 publications · 338 citations

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  2. Statute Law Review

    6 publications · 149 citations

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  3. Language

    4 publications · 372 citations

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  4. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 3 publications · 112 citations

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  5. English for Specific Purposes

    3 publications · 73 citations

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