Chapter 1. “Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer?” English legal discourse past and present

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Chapter 1. “Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer?” English legal discourse past and present 1
5. Part I. Cross-genre and cross-linguistic variation
6. Chapter 2. English and Italian land contracts 25
7. Chapter 3. Conditionals in spoken courtroom and parliamentary discourse in English, French, and Spanish 51
8. Chapter 4. Part-of-speech patterns in legal genres 79
9. Chapter 5. A comparison of lexical bundles in spoken courtroom language across time, registers, and varieties 105
10. Chapter 6. “It is not just a fact that the law requires this, but it is a reasonable fact” 123
11. Part II. Diachronic variation
12. Chapter 7. Are law reports an ‘agile’ or an ‘uptight’ register? 149
13. Chapter 8. Interpersonality in legal written discourse 171
14. Chapter 9. The evolution of a legal genre 201
15. Chapter 10. The representation of citizens and monarchy in Acts of Parliament in 1800 to 2000 235
16. Chapter 11. Drinking and crime 261
17. Name index 287
18. Subject index 291