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Date: | Wed, 10 Sep 1997 11:22:30 -0400 |
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The book LIVING LANGUAGES edited by Nancy Buffington et al.contains
an essay entitled "The Invisible Discourse of the Law." A good
way to introduce grammar to lawyers, I would think, would be to have
them read such essays which show how sneaky and bad lawyerly
language is. And to study the grammar of bad legal language.
Another thought: Look at the redundancies in language ( a noun occupies
a position, it has determiners in front of it, it has noun suffixes,
it has plural inflections, etc.), and compare those redundancies with
legal talk (assault and battery, etc.)
--Bill Murdick
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