Exposure of Polish Learners of Languages for Legal Purposes to Law-Related Pop Culture

• Authors: Dabrowski Andrzej
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

The paper investigates the exposure of Polish learners of languages for legal purposes to popular culture, including different types of foreign law-related TV productions (feature films, series and TV courtroom shows) that could be exploited as authentic legal language teaching materials. An empirical study, inspired by a multinational research project into student views on the image of law and lawyers, will try to elucidate the fact that law-related pop culture engages the interests of non-native learners of languages for legal purposes. Furthermore, the issues of authentic video materials per se and legal consciousness will be highlighted. The paper concludes with recommendations for further research.

Keywords

EN

languages for specific purposes; foreign language teaching; linguistics

• Publisher: Instytut Komunikacji Specjalistycznej i Interkulturowej
• Journal: Lingwistyka Stosowana / Applied Linguistics / Angewandte Linguistik
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 10
• Pages: 25-35

Dates

published

2014

Contributors

author

Dabrowski Andrzej

• Uniwersytet Warszawski

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Identifiers

ISSN

2080-4814