This paper is about the analysis of legal text, focusing on the application of linguistic knowledge into the analysis of characteristics and structure of legal text.

It is relatively common to analyze the features of legal text in perspective of morphology, syntax and grammar in most papers of recent years.

On the Information Structure and Its Linguistic Realizations in Legal Discourse: A C-E Constrastive Discourse Analysis

The study aims to describe linguistic features of legal discourse,explores the interactive relationship between legal language and power and provides an analytical tool for discovering power in legal discourse.

Analysis of the language and style of legal English;

The application of cases in the teaching of legal English;

The findings are expected to have some practical and researchful implications for improving the teaching of English for law.

The paper first discusses the English immersion approach to teaching English for law by focusing on the theories and methods, and then it makes suggestions about courses construction, enhancement of the teaching staff and academic activities concerned for improvement of the teaching English for law with the English immersion approach.

English for law has striking characteristics in terms of diction,syntax and discourse,and it reflects speciality,solemnness,rigorousness and accuracy.