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In legal discourse, there are many different kinds of texts, written as well as oral
There are many different views on the question of what the concept of genre covers, and there are important differences as to the criteria used for the determination of genres: text-external criteria or text-internal criteria or both text-external and -internal criteria
Because of the limited space of this paper, we will not go into this discussion, but instead present an analysis carried out according to one specific way of looking at genres, namely the model proposed by Bhatia (1993)
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There are many different kinds of texts, written as well as oral. Some of these texts present a number of similarities, and it is the study of these similarities which is the object of genre analysis. There are many different views on the question of what the concept of genre covers, and there are important differences as to the criteria used for the determination of genres: text-external criteria (for example function, communicative purpose) or text-internal criteria (for example syntactic characteristics) or both text-external and -internal criteria. Because of the limited space of this paper, we will not go into this discussion, but instead present an analysis carried out according to one specific way of looking at genres, namely the model proposed by Bhatia (1993).
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