Linguistics for legal interpretation /
"Linguistics for Legal Interpretation is a language resource for scholars and practitioners of law who engage and work with statutory interpretation. It draws on lexical semantics, pragmatics and sociolinguistics to both understand and solve language challenges central to the interpretation eff...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Auckland Park, [Johannesburg] :
UJ Press,
2023.
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| Online Access: | EBSCOhost |
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| Summary: | "Linguistics for Legal Interpretation is a language resource for scholars and practitioners of law who engage and work with statutory interpretation. It draws on lexical semantics, pragmatics and sociolinguistics to both understand and solve language challenges central to the interpretation effort. In addition, this book offers best practice guidelines for dictionary use as well as an introduction to corpus linguistic methods to assist legal interpreters in determining either ordinary or technical meaning."--Publisher website. |
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| Item Description: | Open access content. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 1776438892 9781776444601 1776444604 9781776444618 1776444612 9781776438891 |
| Access: | Open Access |