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| adam_text | Linguistic Aspects
of Legislative Expression
Frederick Bowers
University of British Columbia Press
Vancouver 1989
Contents
Table of Cases x
Table of Statutes xiii
Introduction 3
PARTI
SITUATIONAL ASPECTS OF LEGISLATIVE EXPRESSION
Speech Acts and Legislative Expression 17
Descriptive Preliminaries 17
The Logical Form of Speech Acts 19
The Grammatical Form of Speech Acts 22
Elocutionary Force and Statutory Language 27
The Enacting Formula 28
Words Following the Enacting Formula 29
Words Preceding the Enacting Formula 38
Associational Meaning and Legislative Expression 49
Descriptive Preliminaries 49
Situational Meaning 52
The Situational Meaning of Statutes 53
Field 53
Tenor 60
Participants Knowledge of the World 65
Mode 69
Contextual Meaning: Collocations and Connotations 74
VII
CONTENTS
PART II
LEXICAL ASPECTS OF LEGISLATIVE EXPRESSION •
Lexical Semantics and Relations of Similarity 90
Descriptive Preliminaries 90
Lexical Decomposition 90
Sense Relations 102
Semantic Change 108
Literalness, Similarity, and Legislative Expression 113
Literalness 113
Noscitur a Sociis and Other Relations of Similarity 119
Lexical Semantics and Clarity of Reference 130
Ambiguity and Vagueness 130
Ambiguity 131
Vagueness 135
Ambiguity and Vagueness in Legislative Expression 145
Precision and Definition 156
Statutory Definition 166
Lexical Structure 179
Descriptive Preliminaries 179
Basic Kinds of Word-Formation 181
Structural and Semantic Constraints 183
Lexical Structure and Legislative Expression 194
Morphological Structure and Lexical Style 196
PART III
SYNTACTIC ASPECTS OF LEGISLATIVE EXPRESSION
Propositional Structure and Legislative Expression 212
Descriptive Preliminaries 212
Propositional Structure and the Legislative Sentence 220
Time and Its Expression 232
Time, Tense, and Legislative Expression 241
A Note on Negation 249
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CONTENTS
Sentence Structure and Legislative Expression 252
Descriptive Preliminaries 253
From Proposition to Sentence 253
From Sentence to Utterance 258
Vbrd-Order in Utterances 260
Word-Order Operations 260
Pragmatic Functions of Word-Order 266
Word-Order and Legislative Expression 272
Operations which Combine and Reduce 287
Relative Clause Formation and Reduction 288
Reduction and Legislative Expression 297
Compounding and Multiple Modification 303
Multiple Modification and Legislative Expression 308
Compounding with and, or, and/or 316
PART IV
STYLISTIC ASPECTS OF LEGISLATIVE EXPRESSION
Style and Legislative Expression 329
Constraints on the Accessibility of Legislative Expression 331
Factors which Promote Readability 337
Sentence Structure and the Short-Term Memory 337
Predictability and Accessibility 343
Iconism and the Semiotics of Sentences 346
Conclusion 353
Bibliography 363
Topic Index 369
Index of Words and Phrases 375
Index of Names 377
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