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White extends his theory of law as constitutive rhetoric, asking how one may criticize the legal culture and the texts within it.
White extends his theory of law as constitutive rhetoric, asking how one may criticize the legal culture and the texts within it.
"A fascinating study of the language of the law. . . . This book is to be highly recommended: certainly, for those who find the time to read it, it will broaden the mind, and give lawyers a new insight into their role."--New Law Journal
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Our attempt to define the lawyer as a special sort of writer might most naturally begin with a double effort: to try to locate and define his professional language, and to draw a line between what he does with that language and whatever else he does. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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United States, Robert Frost, Jane Austen, Model Penal Code, Prince Andrey, Joseph Conrad, Lady Bertram, Moby Dick, Wallace Stevens, Billy Budd, Captain Vere, Georgetown Hospital, Professor Labov, Samuel Johnson, The Road Not Taken, Charles Dickens, Clarendon's History, Father of the Marshalsea, John Lewis, Royal Commission, Avenue Gabriel, Cleanth Brooks, Good Friend, King Lear, Mark Twain New!
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Our attempt to define the lawyer as a special sort of writer might most naturally begin with a double effort: to try to locate and define his professional language, and to draw a line between what he does with that language and whatever else he does. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
legal language system, conclusory labels, legal speech, relationship with language, legal talk, social literature, judicial opinion Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Robert Frost, Jane Austen, Model Penal Code, Prince Andrey, Joseph Conrad, Lady Bertram, Moby Dick, Wallace Stevens, Billy Budd, Captain Vere, Georgetown Hospital, Professor Labov, Samuel Johnson, The Road Not Taken, Charles Dickens, Clarendon's History, Father of the Marshalsea, John Lewis, Royal Commission, Avenue Gabriel, Cleanth Brooks, Good Friend, King Lear, Mark Twain New!
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- The History of England (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Babington Macaulay on 4 pages
- Little Dorrit (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens on 4 pages
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- Law and Literature: Possibilities and Perspectives by Ian Ward on 7 pages
- Aristotle's Ethics And Legal Rhetoric: An Analysis of Language, Beliefs And the Law (Law, Justice and Power) by Frances J. Ranney on 5 pages
- Law and Literature: Text and Theory (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) by Lenora Ledwon on 5 pages
- The Word and the Law by Milner S. Ball on 4 pages
- The Language of Leadership by Roger Soder on 4 pages
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