"Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer?" : english legal discourse past and present / Teresa Fanego & Paula Rodrøguez-Puente -- English and italian land contracts : a cross-linguistic analysis / Giuliana Diani -- Conditionals in spoken courtroom and parliamentary discourse in english, french, and spanish : a contrastive analysis / Cristina Lastres-López -- Part-of-speech patterns in legal genres : text-internal dynamics from a corpus-based perspective / Ruth Breeze -- A comparison of lexical bundles in spoken courtroom language across time, registers, and varieties / Randi Reppen & Meishan Chen -- "It is not just a fact that the law requires this, but it is a reasonable fact" : using the noun that-pattern to explore stance construction in legal writing / Stanislaw Gozdz-Roszkowski -- Are law reports an "agile" or an "uptight" register? : tracking patterns of historical change in the use of colloquial and complexity features / Douglas Biber & Bethany Gray -- Interpersonality in legal written discourse : a diachronic analysis of personal pronouns in law reports, 1535 to present / Paula Rodrøguez-Puente -- The evolution of a legal genre : rhetorical moves in british patent specifications, 1711 to 1860 / Nicholas Groom & Jack Grieve -- The representation of citizens and monarchy in acts of parliament in 1800 to 2000 : identifying social roles through collocations / Anu Lehto -- Drinking and crime : negotiating intoxication in courtroom discourse, 1720 to 1913 / Claudia Claridge. |