title: Popular legal discourse of English language mass media: From criminal news to legal websites
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metadata.value: Averin, Artyom S.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-04-28T18:49:24Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-04-28T18:49:24Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Averin, A. S. (2020). Popular legal discourse of English language mass media: From criminal news to legal websites. Media Linguistics, 7 (1), 104–117.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu22.2020.109
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/17436
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The author analyzes popular legal discourse in the English language mass media and pays
  attention to its essential features and specific language. It is significant nowadays to conduct
  language studies in the field of Internet communication due to the ongoing process of digitalization
  of all aspects of human and social life. In the course of the research three types of English
  language legal TV programs are described: court room talk show, journalist investigation,
  criminal and police documentaries. The author analyzes several episodes of the most typical shows of every type. It is discovered that they all do not contain popular legal discourse and
  are aimed at entertaining the audience (rather than informing). The shows have legal matters
  as the subject and they are easily understood by ordinary lay people, but it is not correct to
  call them explanatory. Most of the shows contain semi — legal and legal information, which
  can be practically useful. The author also examines English language legal discourse on the
  Internet to compare it with the shows mentioned earlier. He focuses on the most visited websites
  and assesses explanatory texts on the topic of landlord — tenant relationship. The article
  contains examples of two texts on the topic. The first one is from a private legal firm`s website
  (USA), the second was taken from the official Victoria state legal aid website (Australia). A
  number of popular legal discourse features are explored and several specific language features
  are described. The author makes a number of conclusions about the essence and language
  characteristics of legal TV shows and website texts.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Media Linguistics;Volume 7; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: discourse
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: legal discourse
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: discoursology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: mass comminication
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Popular legal discourse of English language mass media: From criminal news to legal websites
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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