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.

Legal Discourse: Studies in Linguistics, Rhetoric, and Legal Analysis

Peter Goodrich

Legal Theory & Systems

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

"Reading the Law" is a contemporary interdisciplinary introduction to the study of law. Drawing on historical, lingusitic, sociological and philosphical materials, it provides the tools for a literary criticism of the subject. Moreover, in addressing the question of how lawyers and students read the texts of the legal tradition, it provides a general and critical introduction to the law and to the significance of the legal discipline.

Reading the Law: A Critical Introduction to Legal Method and Techniques

Blackwell*publishers

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Routledge

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