ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the methodology for analysis and the documents chosen for data analysis. Baker's model on levels of equivalence will be of value to the method and the analysis of data. It provides useful and relevant information and examples to the methodology and data analysis on the lexical and syntactic levels. Baker discusses the textual equivalence in relation to the thematic and information structures. She defines cohesion as the network of lexical, grammatical and other relations, which provide links between various parts of the text. Hasan's five main cohesive categories: reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunction and lexical repetition. She also contrasted these elements with Arabic whenever necessary. The chapter discusses two syntactic areas of difference between English and Arabic which are commonly used in legal discourse, namely, modal auxiliaries and passivization. Suleiman, Abdel-Fattah and Badawi, Carter and Gully categorized Arabic modal expressions and phrases into six main categories: epistemic, alethic, deontic, evaluative, boulomaic and temporal.
