Le passif de l’autorité

This article aims to provide some details about the function of passive structures used as marks of authority in legal texts. The passives that reorganize the relations between different participants in the process, receive in turn new interpretations in specific contexts. The legal communication as...

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Main Author: Margarita Rouski 
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Language:English
Published: Cercle linguistique du Centre et de l'Ouest - CerLICO 2015-06-01
Series:Corela
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/corela/3968
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description This article aims to provide some details about the function of passive structures used as marks of authority in legal texts. The passives that reorganize the relations between different participants in the process, receive in turn new interpretations in specific contexts. The legal communication as a human and social practice, is a legitimate part of a language dynamics. While aiming at absolute objectiveness of the rules of behavior, authority allows the legal norm to impose itself by indicating concrete outcomes. This tendency justifies the very frequent omission of the agent, made possible by the passive constructions. The anonymity of the agent and the objectification of the process which are part of the objective of the authority, lend at the pragmatic level, a prescriptive value to passive forms.
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title Le passif de l’autorité
title_full Le passif de l’autorité
title_fullStr Le passif de l’autorité
title_full_unstemmed Le passif de l’autorité
title_short Le passif de l’autorité
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topic agent
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authority
legal
omission of agent
resultativeness
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