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Just Words: Law, Language, and Power - Conley, John M, and O'Barr, William M
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Is it "just words" when the Supreme Court hands down a decision or when business people draw up a contract? In tackling the question of how an abstract entity exerts concrete power, JUST WORDS focuses on what has become the central issue in law and language research--what language reveals about the nature of legal power.

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Just Words: Law, Language, and Power 1998, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226114873

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Just Words: Law, Language, and Power 1998, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226114866

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