Legislative Clichés: Specifics, Types and Functions
Journal: Legal Linguistics
Year: 2023

The article considers expressions (cliches) used in modern laws and model legislative acts. The concepts of "legislative cliché" and "hackneyed phrase" are differentiated. Approaches to research (discursive and genre-stylistic) and their correlation are grounded. Varieties of clichés (general, interdisciplinary, special, actional-imperative, frame-reference), functions and other features of legislative clichés are considered. Firstly, the communication of information that is universal for the le