Book contents
- Meaning and Power in the Language of Law
- Meaning and Power in the Language of Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Editors' Introduction
- Part I Sui generis or Socially Problematic: The Character of Legal Language
- 1 The Unspoken Language of the Law
- 2 Seeing Sense: The Complexity of Key Words That Tell Us What Law Is
- 3 Hiding in Plain Sight: The Category of Ordinary Language and the Case Law Domain of Transgender Marriage1
- Part II Imperfect Fit between Legal Categories and Social Discourse
- Part III Written in Silence: Hidden Social Meanings in Legal Discourse
- Part IV Conflict between Linguistic and Legal Ideologies
- Part V Demands of Law and Limits of Language
- Afterword
- Index
- References
1 - The Unspoken Language of the Law
from Part I - Sui generis or Socially Problematic: The Character of Legal Language
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Book contents
- Meaning and Power in the Language of Law
- Meaning and Power in the Language of Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Editors' Introduction
- Part I Sui generis or Socially Problematic: The Character of Legal Language
- 1 The Unspoken Language of the Law
- 2 Seeing Sense: The Complexity of Key Words That Tell Us What Law Is
- 3 Hiding in Plain Sight: The Category of Ordinary Language and the Case Law Domain of Transgender Marriage1
- Part II Imperfect Fit between Legal Categories and Social Discourse
- Part III Written in Silence: Hidden Social Meanings in Legal Discourse
- Part IV Conflict between Linguistic and Legal Ideologies
- Part V Demands of Law and Limits of Language
- Afterword
- Index
- References
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