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TRANSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF PAKISTANS CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE 1908 A CORPUSBASED STUDY

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).08      10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).08      Published : Jun 2021

Transitivity Analysis of Pakistan's Code of Civil Procedure 1908: A Corpus-Based Study

Abstract

    The language of law is complex and needs to be investigated to facilitate its easy understanding. The present study addresses this need by analyzing a mini-corpus comprising two short texts taken from Pakistan's Code of Civil Procedure 1908 and the U.K.'s Civil Procedure Rules 1998 with Halliday's ideational metafunction, which is suited for analyzing procedural texts (Halliday & Matthiessen, 2004). The study identified the transitivity patterns in the mini corpus. The findings showed simpler construction of processes in the U.K. civil procedure text sample as compared to Pakistan's Civil Procedure text sample, whereas the analysis showed a similar complex construction of nominal phrases in both texts. The study is expected to contribute toward an easy understanding of legal language. It is also hoped that this study will promote further research in this important area with pedagogical implications.

    Corpus Analysis, Ideational Metafunction, Legal Language, Legislative Drafting, Linguistic Complexity, Systemic Functional Linguistics

    (1) Saadat Hasan Akhtar Usmani
    PhD Scholar, Department of English, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
    (2) Ayaz Afsar
    Vice President Academics, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
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APA

    APA : Usmani, S. H. A., & Afsar, A. (2021). Transitivity Analysis of Pakistan's Code of Civil Procedure 1908: A Corpus-Based Study. Global Language Review, VI(II), 63-77. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).08

CHICAGO

    CHICAGO : Usmani, Saadat Hasan Akhtar, and Ayaz Afsar. 2021. "Transitivity Analysis of Pakistan's Code of Civil Procedure 1908: A Corpus-Based Study." Global Language Review, VI (II): 63-77 doi: 10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).08

HARVARD

    HARVARD : USMANI, S. H. A. & AFSAR, A. 2021. Transitivity Analysis of Pakistan's Code of Civil Procedure 1908: A Corpus-Based Study. Global Language Review, VI, 63-77.

MHRA

    MHRA : Usmani, Saadat Hasan Akhtar, and Ayaz Afsar. 2021. "Transitivity Analysis of Pakistan's Code of Civil Procedure 1908: A Corpus-Based Study." Global Language Review, VI: 63-77

MLA

    MLA : Usmani, Saadat Hasan Akhtar, and Ayaz Afsar. "Transitivity Analysis of Pakistan's Code of Civil Procedure 1908: A Corpus-Based Study." Global Language Review, VI.II (2021): 63-77 Print.

OXFORD

    OXFORD : Usmani, Saadat Hasan Akhtar and Afsar, Ayaz (2021), "Transitivity Analysis of Pakistan's Code of Civil Procedure 1908: A Corpus-Based Study", Global Language Review, VI (II), 63-77

TURABIAN

    TURABIAN : Usmani, Saadat Hasan Akhtar, and Ayaz Afsar. "Transitivity Analysis of Pakistan's Code of Civil Procedure 1908: A Corpus-Based Study." Global Language Review VI, no. II (2021): 63-77. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).08