Aspects of Language and the Law: Exploring Further Avenues

As a discipline fundamentally based on text, the law is singular in its total dependence on language: legislators and drafters craft language to encode the law into text which judges, lawyers, jurists and other legal professionals of all times and climes subsequently interpret by detectin...

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Main Authors: Campos Pardillos, Miguel Ángel, Isani, Shaeda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Alicante 2015-11-01
Series:Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses
Online Access:https://raei.ua.es/article/view/2015-n28-aspects-of-language-and-the-law-exploring-further-avenues
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spelling doaj-43d31e9a3de64b8aa58a1a7f9f0e06d02020-11-25T03:38:18ZengUniversidad de AlicanteRevista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses0214-48082171-861X2015-11-0128510.14198/raei.2015.28.015431Aspects of Language and the Law: Exploring Further AvenuesCampos Pardillos, Miguel ÁngelIsani, Shaeda As a discipline fundamentally based on text, the law is singular in its total dependence on language: legislators and drafters craft language to encode the law into text which judges, lawyers, jurists and other legal professionals of all times and climes subsequently interpret by detecting, dissecting and decoding the possible linguistic variations and loopholes lurking in between the lines. The discipline of law is, as such, an intensely metadiscoursal one where terms, structures and even punctuation are the subject of analysis, comment, interpretation and reinterpretation.https://raei.ua.es/article/view/2015-n28-aspects-of-language-and-the-law-exploring-further-avenues
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