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Download full textCrandall, JoAnn; Charrow, Veda R. – 1990
Efforts to simplify language used in consumer documents come from the consumer movement and a public disillusioned with big business and government. Even before President Carter's 1978 executive order mandating simplification in government regulations, some agencies were revising regulations for clarity. However, these efforts were based on too…
Descriptors: Consumer Protection, Federal Regulation, Language Patterns, Language Research
Charrow, Veda R.; Crandall, JoAnn – 1990
Legal language is discussed in the context of concern about the comprehensibility of consumer documents and the trend toward simplification of the language used in these documents. Specific features of legal language and its functions within the legal community and society are identified. As a primary tool of the legal profession, legal language…
Descriptors: Consumer Protection, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, Language Patterns
