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This paper discusses the common lexical and grammatical features of legal discourse inEnglish and Arabic.6 The rationale behind this analysis is to compare and contrast the discourse ofboth languages, list the similarities and differences between them and come up with the mostproblematic areas in legal translation. It is worth mentioning that features of Arabic legal discoursehave not been researched before, thus, I have taken the features of legal English as headlightsaccording to which I will analyze the corpus of Arabic legal documents. These features, however,are not specific to one particular type of written language of the law. By type of language is meantthe different types of legal texts such as legislations, contracts, official documents, courtproceedings, etc. For this purpose, authentic samples of different English and Arabic legaldocuments have been consulted. These texts, obtained from law professionals, include private legaldocuments such as tenancy agreements, employment contracts, correspondences between solicitorsand clients, reports to the court, birth certificates, and marriage certificates. Other documentsinclude selected legislative and international documents. To this effect, the United Nations (UN)website, other translation books such as Mansoor (1965), Hatim, Shunnaq and Buckley (1995) areconsulted.
Hanem El-Farahaty (Tue,) studied this question.