ABSTRACT
Anyone who hears the term ‘legal language’ thinks immediately of grammatically complex, sparsely punctuated, over-lexicalized, opaque written text. Is the characterisation accurate and, if so, how did it come to be so?
Anyone who hears the term ‘legal language’ thinks immediately of grammatically complex, sparsely punctuated, over-lexicalized, opaque written text. Is the characterisation accurate and, if so, how did it come to be so?