Legal Discourse: Studies in Linguistics, Rhetoric and Legal Analysis
Author:   Peter Goodrich
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
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9780333515846


Pages:   266
Publication Date:   18 June 1990
Format:   Paperback
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Legal Discourse: Studies in Linguistics, Rhetoric and Legal Analysis


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Lawyers and the law have long been the object of popular criticism and satire for the obscurity and incomprehensibility of their language. This book provides a novel historical and systematic account of the language of the legal institution together with a sustained criticism of legal exegesis and ""legaleze"" 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 disciplines 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.

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Author:   Peter Goodrich
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780333515846


ISBN 10:   0333515846
Pages:   266
Publication Date:   18 June 1990
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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