01444 a2200289 4500 1138868361 20250317100405.0 250312042015GB eng 9781138868366 Taylor & Francis GBP 22.99 BB 01 eng C thema LAF thema C bic LAF bic LAN000000 bisac LAN009000 bisac LAW000000 bisac 340.14 bisac Alfred Phillips Lawyers' Language The Distinctiveness of Legal Language 1 Oxford Routledge 20150609 200 p 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. 1723 1723