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Legal Discourse

Studies in Linguistics, Rhetoric and Legal Analysis

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  • © 1987

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Authors:
  1. Peter Goodrich

    1. University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

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Part of the book series: Language, Discourse, Society (LDS)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Peter Goodrich
      Pages 1-8

  3. Linguistics and Legal Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. The Science of Language

      • Peter Goodrich
      Pages 11-31

    3. The Language of Legal Faith

      • Peter Goodrich
      Pages 32-62

    4. The Role of Linguistics in Legal Analysis

      • Peter Goodrich
      Pages 63-81

  4. Legal Discourse

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
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    2. Rhetoric as Jurisprudence

      • Peter Goodrich
      Pages 85-124

    3. Law as Social Discourse I

      • Peter Goodrich
      Pages 125-157

    4. Law as Social Discourse II

      • Peter Goodrich
      Pages 158-204

    5. Conclusion

      • Peter Goodrich
      Pages 205-212

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 213-266
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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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  • University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

    Peter Goodrich

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