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Author Phillips, Alfred

Title Lawyers' Language : the Distinctiveness of Legal Language
Published London : Routledge, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (201 pages)
Contents Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; Breaking ground; How critical language theory seeks and then struggles against its own undoing; Interpretation; Constructive interpretation; Conclusions; Notes; Index
Summary 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
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Subject Habermas, Jürgen -- Contributions in law
Habermas, Jürgen
Law -- Language.
Law -- Interpretation and construction.
Democracy.
Democracy
Law
Law -- Interpretation and construction
Law -- Language
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203220313
0203220315