Add to ORKGLawyers and the law have long been the object of popular criticism and satire for the obscurity and incomprehensibility of their language. Legal Discourse provides a novel historical and systematic account of the language of the legal institution together with a sustained criticism of legal exegesis and `legalese\u27 more generally. In the first part of the work the doctrinal history of the legal discipline and its concepts of language, text and sign are examined and assessed. In the second part the contemporary disciples of linguistics, discourse analysis and communication studies are brought to bear upon the task of constructing a theory of legal discourse as a linguistics of legal power.https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/faculty-books/1038/thum...
This edited volume brings together international scholars from within applied linguistics to examine...
This book provides insights into the ways in which legal professionals participate in their day-to-d...
This edited volume brings together international scholars from within applied linguistics to examine...
Lawyers and the law have long been the object of popular criticism and satire for the obscurity and ...
The principal substantive aim of this study is that of providing a critical account of the relation...
This book provides insights into the ways in which legal professionals participate in their day-to-d...
Although the term ‘discourse’ has been defined by many researchers in linguistics, it still remains ...
2siThis book explores the language of judges. It is concerned with understanding how language works ...
Rhetorical scholars have long advocated for the study of legal discourse because of the “centrality ...
Languages of Law is an original and comprehensive study of the history, symbols and languages of the...
Languages of Law is an original and comprehensive study of the history, symbols and languages of the...
The edited volume Language and Law in Academic and Professional Settings - Analyses and Applications...
Philosophy of law can gain from a good philosophical account of the meaning and use of language, and...
Philosophy of law can gain from a good philosophical account of the meaning and use of language, and...
This book provides insights into the ways in which legal professionals participate in their day-to-d...
This edited volume brings together international scholars from within applied linguistics to examine...
This book provides insights into the ways in which legal professionals participate in their day-to-d...
This edited volume brings together international scholars from within applied linguistics to examine...
Lawyers and the law have long been the object of popular criticism and satire for the obscurity and ...
The principal substantive aim of this study is that of providing a critical account of the relation...
This book provides insights into the ways in which legal professionals participate in their day-to-d...
Although the term ‘discourse’ has been defined by many researchers in linguistics, it still remains ...
2siThis book explores the language of judges. It is concerned with understanding how language works ...
Rhetorical scholars have long advocated for the study of legal discourse because of the “centrality ...
Languages of Law is an original and comprehensive study of the history, symbols and languages of the...
Languages of Law is an original and comprehensive study of the history, symbols and languages of the...
The edited volume Language and Law in Academic and Professional Settings - Analyses and Applications...
Philosophy of law can gain from a good philosophical account of the meaning and use of language, and...
Philosophy of law can gain from a good philosophical account of the meaning and use of language, and...
This book provides insights into the ways in which legal professionals participate in their day-to-d...
This edited volume brings together international scholars from within applied linguistics to examine...
This book provides insights into the ways in which legal professionals participate in their day-to-d...
This edited volume brings together international scholars from within applied linguistics to examine...