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Lawyers' Language: How and Why Legal Language Is Different
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by Alfred Phillips. 194 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Alfred Phillips

Publisher:

   Routledge

Place of Publication:

  London  

Publication Year:

  2002
Subjects:   Democracy, Law--Language, Law--Interpretation And Construction, Habermas, Jurgen--Contributions In Law
Table of contents
CONTENTS
Introduction 1
1 Breaking ground 28
2 How critical language theory seeks and then struggles against its own undoing 51
3 Interpretation 89
4 Constructive interpretation 114
5 Conclusions 145
Notes 179
Index 186
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