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Language, Meaning and the Law offers an accessible, critical guide to debates about linguistic meaning and interpretation in relation to legal language. Law is

A new perspective on how far law's power derives from socially situated communication rather than from abstract rules.

Since many legal disputes are battles over the meaning of a statute, contract, testimony, or the Constitution, judges must interpret language in order to decide

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1-, University of Dusseldorf "Heinrich Heine" (Ang

Explains and describes the ways that language use in the legal system can create inequality and disadvantage. It examines the three main areas where the two int