Keyword

legislative language

Description: Legislative language is the specialized wording and style used to draft laws and other formal texts produced by legislatures.

Primary topic: Legal Language and Interpretation (49%)

OpenAlex ID: keywords/legislative-language

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

2015 · John Wilkerson, David Smith, et al. · American Journal of Political Science · 154

The language of legislation

1987 · Yon Maley · Language in Society · 62

On legislative expression, or, The language of the written law.

2008 · George Coode · 54

Clarity and Word Order in Legislation

1985 · DENNIS KURZON · Oxford Journal of Legal Studies · 47

Legislative Style

2017 · William Bernhard, Tracy Sulkin · University of Chicago Press eBooks · 41

10 Luxembourg

2017 · Johannes Kramer, Aline Willems · De Gruyter eBooks · 38

Mapping the Language of Women's Interests: Sex and Party Affiliation in the Bundestag

2012 · Christina Xydias · Political Studies · 36

Changes in the verb phrase in legislative language in English

2013 · Christopher Williams · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 32

Evidence‐Based Human Trafficking Policy: Opportunities to Invest in Trauma‐Informed Strategies

2019 · J.Taylor Scott, Alexandra M. Ingram, et al. · American Journal of Community Psychology · 30

Predicting and understanding law-making with word vectors and an ensemble model

2017 · John J. Nay · PLoS ONE · 30

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Waterpipe tobacco smoking impact on public health: implications for policy

2015 · Mary Martinasek, Linda Gibson-Young, et al. · Risk Management and Healthcare Policy · 23

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L'art d'écrire la loi

2003 · Gérard Cornu · Pouvoirs · 22

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State Supreme Courts and the Effects of Statutory Constraint

2010 · Kirk A. Randazzo, Richard W. Waterman, et al. · Political Research Quarterly · 21

The best available science for the management of anadromous salmonids in the Columbia River Basin

2002 · Gustavo A Bisbal · Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences · 19

Legislating to Prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences: Growth and Opportunities for Evidence-Based Policymaking and Prevention

2021 · D. Max Crowley, Christian M. Connell, et al. · Prevention Science · 17

Legislative language and judicial politics: The effects of changing parliamentary language on UK immigration disputes

2017 · Matthew Williams · The British Journal of Politics and International Relations · 17

Legislative Language in the EU: The Crucible

2002 · Richard Foley · International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique · 17

Style-shifting in the U.S. Congress

2012 · Lauren Hall-Lew, Rebecca Lurie Starr, et al. · Studies in language variation · 16

French Parliamentary Discourse, 1789–1914

2016 · Thomas Bouchet · Berghahn Books · 15

A Study of Modality System in Chinese-English Legal Translation from the Perspective of SFG

2014 · Zhangjun Lian, Ting Jiang · Theory and Practice in Language Studies · 15

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La lengua del turismo

2011 · Calvi, Maria Vittoria, Mapelli, Giovanna · Linguistic insights · 14

Die juristische Fachsprache als Institutionensprache am Beispiel von Gesetzen und ihrer Auslegung

1998 · Dietrich Busse · De Gruyter eBooks · 13

Pragmatics of the Use of Nominals in Academic and Professional Genres.

1992 · Vijay K. Bhatia · 13

The Accusing Body

2011 · Tami Spry · Culture Studies &#x2194 Critical Methodologies · 12

Pragmatics. Discourse and Text: Some Systematically-Inspired Approaches

1991 · Kay Richardson, Erich H. Steiner, et al. · The Modern Language Review · 12

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Citation count: 1,266