Language and law in professional discourse : issues and perspectives /
"This book provides insights into the ways in which legal professionals participate in their day-to-day activity and critically focuses on how language is used and exploited in everyday professional discourse. It is organised into two Parts dealing with topic areas of legal discourse (written a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2014
Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014 Newcastle upon Tyne : 2014 |
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| Summary: | "This book provides insights into the ways in which legal professionals participate in their day-to-day activity and critically focuses on how language is used and exploited in everyday professional discourse. It is organised into two Parts dealing with topic areas of legal discourse (written and spoken) relevant to professional practice and communication. The innovative research landscape offered by this book covers diverse and complex features of legal discourse construction where socially informed aspects of language use are negotiated by professional practices. Such features provide the wide scope for the critical study of legal language as a tool for social action, and set up a descriptive and interpretive framework for engaging with representations of legal discourses and genres where authority, power, ideology, as well as areas of hybridity, intertextuality, interdiscursivity and recontextualization are involved in legal discourse. This book brings together scholars from a wide academic spectrum around the globe with an interest in the intricacies of language and law as they play out in the real world. The book will therefore offer both a resource and a stimulus to law and language practitioners as well s to a wider readership"--Unedited summary from book jacket |
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| Physical Description: | 185 pages : ill. ; 21 cm vi, 172 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm vi, 172 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1443855057 (cloth) 1443855057 1443857661 (electronic bk.) 1443857661 9781443855051 (cloth) 9781443855051 9781443857666 (electronic bk.) 9781443857666 |