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- W3133911847 abstract "Opacity is a characteristic of legalese which makes it distinct from other varieties of language use. Consequently, to appreciate the dynamism of language use, as exhibited in legalese, this study sets out to investigate the linguistic features of selected Nigerian statutory wills, paying particular attention to the graphological and lexical features. Crystal and Davy’s (1969) framework was adopted for the analysis. This model of linguistic description involves taking the object of study a particular piece of language or text and discussing it in terms of a number of inter-related levels of description. The focus was on the level of graphological and lexical features. The design employed in this study is descriptive and discursive.The design was adopted so as to present the language features as used in context not as it is supposed to be used. The corpus for this study consists of five texts drawn from written statutory wills. Five texts were selected from statutory wills ranging from 1990 to 2013. Two wills from the North Eastern, two from SouthSouth and one from the South Eastern part of the country. The corpus is restricted to only statutory wills because the other types of wills (Nuncupative and Customary) are in oral form. The statutory will is written and far more efficient. The rationale for limiting the texts to" @default.
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- W3133911847 title "LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF SELECTED NIGERIAN STATUTORY WILLS" @default.
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