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Funkcjonalność pojęć temporalnych w dyskursie prawnym i urzędowym
Functionality of Temporal Concepts in Legal and Public Administration Discourse

Author(s): Joanna Kowalczyk
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Lexis, Comparative Linguistics
Published by: KSIĘGARNIA AKADEMICKA Sp. z o.o.
Keywords: legal language;public administration discourse;time;nomenclature

Summary/Abstract: The article is dedicated to the concept of time in the context of its potential to organize legal interactions. The subject of the study includes time markers in Polish legislative, official and court documents. The aim of the article is to describe the temporal terminology used in legal and official communication, and to find pragmatic characteristics that make it possible for the concept of time to organize extralinguistic reality in many different aspects. The author of the article analyses both fixed language constructs and language units with an open and occasional structure.

  • Issue Year: 16/2021
  • Issue No: 31
  • Page Range: 25-36
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish