JOURNAL ARTICLE

Multilingual legislation and plain language: A corpus-based study of Swiss federal acts in Italian.

  • Published In: International Journal of Speech, Language & the Law, 2023, v. 30, n. 2. P. 308 1 of 2

  • Database: Communication Source 2 of 2

Abstract

In the article, the author presents a corpus-based study of Swiss federal acts written in Italian language to discuss multilingual legislation and plain language. Other topics include the importance of translation in multilingual law-making, the principle of popular law as conceptualized by Eugen Huber in early 20th century, and the linguistic complexity in translation-mediated multilingualism.

Additional Information

  • Source:International Journal of Speech, Language & the Law. 2023/07, Vol. 30, Issue 2, p308
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Language and Linguistics
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:1748-8885
  • DOI:10.1558/ijsll.27273
  • Accession Number:175126744

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