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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. 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' 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.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Linguistics and Legal Theory
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Front Matter
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Legal Discourse
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Legal Discourse
Book Subtitle: Studies in Linguistics, Rhetoric and Legal Analysis
Authors: Peter Goodrich
Series Title: Language, Discourse, Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11283-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1987
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-51584-6Published: 18 June 1990
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-11283-8Published: 19 February 1990
Series ISSN: 2947-0188
Series E-ISSN: 2947-0196
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 266
Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Linguistics, general, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Sociolinguistics, Sociology, general, Philosophy of Law