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Lawyers' Language: The Distinctiveness of Legal Language

By Alfred Phillips

Book information

Year
2002
ISBN
0700716882, 9780700716883
LCC
K213 .P493 2002
Open Library ID
OL3568290M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
666 kB (681657 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
200\201
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Языки и языкознание;Английский язык;Для специалист

Description

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.

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