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Lawyers' Language
The Distinctiveness of Legal Language
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An interesting examination of law as language use or discourse, this study looks at the transformation of ordinary language into a special discourse for the purposes of the legal system. It is widely accepted that legal discourse is obscure, and often the public resent the fact that access to the law of the land is obstructed by the opaqueness of legal language. This book argues that the development and maintenance of law's special language can be justified. The myth that law can be written in either plain' or ordinary' language is exploded, and the linguistic obscurity of law is traced to its necessary complexity. The notion of representation is applied to the relation that exists between legal language and ordinary language.
Taylor and Francis; January 2013
201 pages; ISBN 9781135788353
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Subject categories
- Academic > Law > Law in general. Comparative and uniform law. Jurisprudence > Comparative law. International uniform law > Courts. Procedure > Court organization and procedure
- Academic > Law > Law in general. Comparative and uniform law. Jurisprudence > Jurisprudence. Philosophy and theory of law > Methodology
- Academic > Law > Law in general. Comparative and uniform law. Jurisprudence > Periodicals
- Language Arts & Disciplines > Linguistics
- Language Arts & Disciplines > Semantics
ISBNs
0203220315
9780203220313
9780700716883
9781135788353
9781135788360