Ways of addressing in legal discourse

Vol.1,No.1(2008)

Abstract
The author’s attention is focused on the ways of addressing in legal discourse. The analysis is aimed primarily at the expressions, and word-formative suffi xes used for referring to contractual parties, differentiating their role and stating a relation between them. In addition to this, the goal of the author’s interest is the deictic expression used for making reference to a person, thing, idea, etc., which is nearer or further away in place, time, thought (this/these – that/those, here – there) as well as a special kind of legal deictic expressions such as hereby, whereby, hereinafter.
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