Meaning and Power in the Language of Law by Janny H. C. Leung HARDBACK

Meaning and Power in the Language of Law\nby Janny H. C. Leung\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Janny H. C. Leung\nTitle: Meaning and Power in the Language of Law\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Linguistics\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2018\nISBN-13: 9781107112841\nISBN-10: 1107112842\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nLegal practitioners, linguists, anthropologists, philosophers and others have all explored fundamental challenges presented by language in formulating, interpreting and applying laws. Building on centuries of interaction between legal practice and jurisprudence, the modern field of ''law and language'', or ''forensic linguistics'', brings insights in linguistics and related fields to bear on topics including legal drafting and transla.