The linguistic features of disclaimers in English

Tóm tắt

As Disclaimer is essentially a legal statement that is designed to protect both the company and its customers by informing the customers of terms and extent of the company’s services or products, it is clearly and frequently labeled as Disclaimers. As a matter of fact, wherever there are rules there will be temptations for people to break them as they lack full understanding of Disclaimers to recognize the importance and legal responsibilities binding with these types of legal texts. This paper is to identify the linguistic features of Disclaimers in English. The author believes in the context of globalization, as long as things are increasingly considered to be in tight connections with rules, awareness of Disclaimers should be raised among Vietnamese people. In addition, once the English Disclaimers with their pragmatic and structural features are brought to light, not only has this knowledge done wonders to those as customers, but also helps businessmen or law trainees in forming a disclaimer on their own.