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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