Regularity in the linguistic choices in the legal drafting of Saudi legislative texts

Regularity in the linguistic choices in the legal drafting of Saudi legislative texts

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This research offers several distinctive linguistic choices in the legal drafting of the legislative texts approved in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, including a number of grammatical, syntactic and lexical aspects. It considers the extent of the regularity in them, analyzing 105 laws and regulations, following the methodology of the descriptive research that depends on the automatic analysis using the program (Sketchengine). the masculine sound plural (مديرون), not using (ال) with the annexed (غير), emphasizing with (نفسه) as it is added to pronoun (ها) and comes as a suffix of the intensive one, and in writing (مائة) with Alif constantly. On the other hand, there is a number of phenomena that does not come regular but rather have multiple forms, such as: using and repeating (بين), variance in using (استبدل), and the alternation between (التقويم and التقييم), (أي and أية), (حسب and بحسب), (لصالح and لمصلحة), (يقبل and يقبل بـ), (كفاية and كفاءة), (توفر and توافر) and another 23 linguistic choices, which the linguists have studied and researched in this paper. This disparity and lack of harmony may be interpreted negatively or positively as it may be due to the fact that the drafter is conscious and aware of such diversity and has goals from it, such as: enhancing the flexibility and expansion of the language and creating a kind of diversification in style to get rid of boredom and dullness.

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