<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> The article focuses on methods of teaching commercial lawyers, whose native language is not English, some linguistic aspects of drafting a contract in English. The author, whose principal occupation is teaching legal English, has created a Course on Language Aspects of English Contract for in-service lawyers. The course is aimed at teaching learners to understand and interpret English contracts written in traditional legal English (legalese) and help them develop some drafting and redrafting techniques taking into account the modern tendency growing in English speaking common law countries towards simplifying traditional legal English. A number of contracts written in different styles have been analysed, basic contract categories each characterised by certain operative words and phrases, have been established and terminology glossary have been compiled. The purpose of this paper is to present the course’s syllabi, outline and teaching methods.</p></abstract>

The article focuses on methods of teaching commercial lawyers, whose native language is not English, some linguistic aspects of drafting a contract in English. The author, whose principal occupation is teaching legal English, has created a Course on Language Aspects of English Contract for in-service lawyers. The course is aimed at teaching learners to understand and interpret English contracts written in traditional legal English (legalese) and help them develop some drafting and redrafting techniques taking into account the modern tendency growing in English speaking common law countries towards simplifying traditional legal English. A number of contracts written in different styles have been analysed, basic contract categories each characterised by certain operative words and phrases, have been established and terminology glossary have been compiled. The purpose of this paper is to present the course’s syllabi, outline and teaching methods.

Teaching Commercial Lawyers Language Aspects of Drafting Contracts in English

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The article focuses on methods of teaching commercial lawyers, whose native language is not English, some linguistic aspects of drafting a contract in English....

Teaching Commercial Lawyers Language Aspects of Drafting Contracts in English

Published Online: Apr 26, 2017

Page range: 175 - 193

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/slgr-2017-0011

Keywords
contract drafting, course syllabi, needs analysis, plain legal English, traditional legal English

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Teaching Commercial Lawyers Language Aspects of Drafting Contracts in English

Published Online: Apr 26, 2017

Page range: 175 - 193

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/slgr-2017-0011

Keywordscontract drafting, course syllabi, needs analysis, plain legal English, traditional legal English

© Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
contract drafting, course syllabi, needs analysis, plain legal English, traditional legal English