Teksty prawne – od analizy składniowej do uwag o stylu
Legal acts – from a syntactic analysis to remarks on style

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on a linguistic description that is based on syntactic rules, thefoundation of which is the meaning. The basic unit of examination here is the normativesentence in which the modality category and grammatical meanings, indicated by certainlanguage forms are taken into consideration. The aims of the research are: a) to decidethanks to what the analysis of sentence makes it possible to determine the stylisticfeatures of legal acts; b) to explain how many stylistic features there are and what theirnames are; c) to define the range of the use of legal style language indicators in theexamined material. The research showed that the relationship between the syntacticanalysis and the style characteristics is based on the choice of an appropriate text unitand set of notions. A normative sentence is an example of an extraordinary syntacticstructure since its description leads to defining all of the crucial features of the legal style. A precise analysis of semantic categories makes it possible to examine stylistic functionswhich are indicated in the legal text by various language forms.

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