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Lawyers' Language (Record no. 1723)

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001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field 1138868361
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20250317100405.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field 250312042015GB eng
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781138868366
037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION
Source of stock number/acquisition Taylor & Francis
Terms of availability GBP 22.99
Form of issue BB
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency 01
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code C
Source thema
072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code LAF
Source thema
072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code C
Source bic
072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code LAF
Source bic
072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code LAN000000
Source bisac
072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code LAN009000
Source bisac
072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code LAW000000
Source bisac
072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code 340.14
Source bisac
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Alfred Phillips
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Lawyers' Language
Remainder of title The Distinctiveness of Legal Language
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Oxford
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Routledge
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 20150609
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 200 p
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Expansion of summary note An interesting examination of law as language use or discourse, this study looks at the transformation of ordinary language into a special discourse for the purposes of the legal system. It is widely accepted that legal discourse is obscure, and often the public resent the fact that access to the law of the land is obstructed by the opaqueness of legal language. This book argues that the development and maintenance of law's special language can be justified. The myth that law can be written in either plain' or ordinary' language is exploded, and the linguistic obscurity of law is traced to its necessary complexity. The notion of representation is applied to the relation that exists between legal language and ordinary language.

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