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This book looks at the forces that have made traditional legal language what it is today and suggests some reasoms why the law needs plain English. It also show

Sociolinguists and lawyers will find insight and relevance in this account of the language of the courtroom, as exemplified in the criminal trial of O.J. Simpso

This study of Anglo-American legal discourse is the first comprehensive discourse analysis of American legal language in its prototypical setting, the trial by

Drawing on representative corpora of transcripts from over 100 English criminal jury trials, this stimulating new book explores the nature of 'legal-lay discour

Demonstrates how data, methods and theories from sociolinguistics and creole studies synergize and mutually benefit each subfield.