Legal Discourse: Studies in Linguistics, Rhetoric and Legal Analysis

by Peter Goodrich

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333515846
• ISBN13: 9780333515846
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"