9780312003708-0312003706-Legal Discourse: Studies in Linguistics, Rhetoric, and Legal Analysis

Legal Discourse: Studies in Linguistics, Rhetoric, and Legal Analysis

ISBN-13: 9780312003708
ISBN-10: 0312003706
Author: Peter Goodrich
Publication date: 1987
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardcover 266 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780312003708
ISBN-10: 0312003706
Author: Peter Goodrich
Publication date: 1987
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardcover 266 pages

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Legal Discourse: Studies in Linguistics, Rhetoric, and Legal Analysis (ISBN-13: 9780312003708 and ISBN-10: 0312003706), written by authors Peter Goodrich, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 1987. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Legal Discourse: Studies in Linguistics, Rhetoric, and Legal Analysis (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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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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