Abstract
To write more readable texts, the legal drafter must understand the context and purpose of communicative situation and consider the interrelation between textual clarification procedures and text's overall meaning. Readability and intelligibility are of primary concern to legal drafters, who must formulate legal texts so as to reflect the intention and spirit of legislator as clearly and accurately as possible. This chapter examines one of the factors that contribute to readability and intelligibility of procedural writing: the configuration of enumerations. It explores the following question: In a legal text, do enumerations presented in vertical configuration make a text more readable and more intelligible? The chapter gives an overview of the language and discourses operations that interact within a text to signal textual organization, and then explores the relationship between readability and intelligibility and between cohesion and coherence. It investigates the role of enumeration in legal texts within this framework. Keywords: enumeration; intelligibility; legal drafter; legal texts; procedural writing; readability; textual organization; vertical configuration
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