Lawyers' language : how and why legal language is different / Alfred Phillips.
"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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2003.
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| 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. 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."--Publisher description. |
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| Item Description: | "Simultaneously published in US and Canada"--T.p. verso. |
| Physical Description: | v, 194 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-185) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0700716882 9780700716883 0203220315 9780203220313 |