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- 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
- 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
- 11 Law and the Grammar of Judgment
- 12 Legal Indeterminacy in the Spoken Word*
- Afterword
- Index
- References
12 - Legal Indeterminacy in the Spoken Word*
from Part V - Demands of Law and Limits of Language
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 December 2017
- 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
- 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
- 11 Law and the Grammar of Judgment
- 12 Legal Indeterminacy in the Spoken Word*
- Afterword
- Index
- References
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- Meaning and Power in the Language of Law , pp. 277 - 302Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018