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QUELQUES TECHNIQUES DE PASSIVATION DANS LES TEXTES JURIDIQUES
PASSIVATION TECHNIQUES IN LEGAL TEXTS

Author(s): Margarita Ruski
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Piteşti
Keywords: passive. legal. human. authority. agent.

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to isolate some syntactic, semantic and discourse properties of passive constructions in legal texts. Its goal is to demonstrate that the massive use of passive forms is motivated on pragmatic level by functional discourse characteristics of legal text.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 199-208
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: French
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