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6 JLL 1 (2017)

handle is hein.journals/jlangaw6 and id is 1 raw text is: International Journal of LANGUAGE & LAW Breeze,) LL 6 (2017): 1-17 Corpora and Computation in Teaching Law and Language Ruth Breeze* Abstract Corpus use has revolutionised the teaching of languages for specific purposes. In this article, I review some of the ways in which corpus studies can enhance our understanding of the regularities in legal language, looking particularly at formulaic language in four different areas of legal language: academic law articles, case law (judgments and opinions), docu- ments (contracts, merger agreements, etc.) and legislation. After a brief overview of lexical issues in legal language, I look in greater detail at 4- to 8-word bundles in legal texts. After some consideration of legal modality and recurring syntactic structures, I show how these aspects come together with the phenomenon of bundles and formulaicity. I then provide some examples of how the kind of information provided here by specialised corpora can be exploited for teaching purposes. Keywords Legal English, corpus linguistics, multimodality, formulaic language, bundles, modal verbs Submitted: 22 December 2016, accepted: 29 May 2017, published online: 28 )une 2017 * Ruth Breeze: University of Navarra, Spain, . The author would like to thank the Instituto Culturay Sociedad and the School of Law at the University of Navarra for their support. International Journal of Language & Law vol. 6 (2017) DOI: 001 L) L