Language for Specific Purposes: Legal English
Master's Programme in English Studies: Professional Applications & Intercultural Communication
Academic staff
Course code:
70483125
Type:
Compulsory – Professional Applications Itinerary (Module 3)
Approach to Education
Blended-learning (25%)
Term
Second
Classroom
Humanities Building II, classroom 6
Teaching period
9 January – 26 February 2025
Teaching times
Wednesdays 16.00 – 18.15
Thursdays 16.00 – 18.15
Teaching guide
Language for Specific Purposes: Legal English
Description
The interest of Legal English lies in two main reasons:
‣ The peculiarity of the English legal system
‣ The challenge faced by the linguist when it comes to analysing the features and nature of this type of
language
The course is divided into three thematics blocks:
Block I – The English Legal System
‣ English legal sources
‣ Case law vs common law
Block II – Genres of the written means
‣ General characteristics of this type of language
‣ Syntax and morphology of legal English
‣ Legal vocabulary
Block III – Legal-administrative texts and documents
‣ Analysis of legal-administrative texts
English for Specific Purposes: Legal English
