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What is legal language and where is it found? What does a forensic linguist do? How can linguistic skills help legal professionals?We are constantly surrounded by legal language, but sometimes it is almost impossible to understand.
Providing extracts from real-life legal cases, this highly usable and accessible textbook brims with helpful examples and activities that will help you to navigate this area. Language and Law:* introduces useful linguistic concepts and tools * outlines the methods linguists employ to analyse legal language and language in legal situations* includes topics on such as: written legal language; threats, warnings and speech act theory; courtroom interactions and the work linguists do to help solve crimes; physical and 'spoken' signs; and the creativity of legal language
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:224 pages, 224 p.
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:10/03/2014
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- ISBN:9781137017956
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:224 pages, 224 p.
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:10/03/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9781137017956
