CONSUMER WARRANTY AS A GENRE
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Keywords

consumer warranty
genre
correct interpretation
readability

How to Cite

DELEKTA, I. (2013). CONSUMER WARRANTY AS A GENRE. Comparative Legilinguistics, 15, 7–18. https://doi.org/10.14746/cl.2013.15.1

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present genre specificity of the consumer warranty and various factors determining its structure and language as well as consumer regulations. Warranty is a type of document that is commonly used and widely known. However, a possibility of different interpretations of warranty content can lead to its incomprehensibility and/or misinterpretation and have s pecific legal consequences. The author analysed English version of 110 warranty documents for consumer goods. The collected research material indicates a structural and syntactic diversity ofwarranty documents. It also illustrates how content and the language of the document might facilitate or hinder its correct interpretation.

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