Tautologies en anglais juridique Termes atypiques au service du droit

The idea underpinning this paper is that redundant formulas enrich and strengthen concepts in Common Law, so that “tautological term” is no oxymoron. Rather than considering tautologies as mere stylistic devices, they should be viewed as perlocutionary acts. In an approach at the crossroads of terminology and stylistics, the diachronic analysis offered here shows that tautologies cannot be isolated from their contextual and historical environment.