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Publication details [#39181]

Stratman, James F. 2004. How legal analysts negotiate indeterminacy of meaning in common law rules: toward a synthesis of linguistic and cognitive approaches to investigation. Language & Communication 24 (1) : 23–57.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

indeterminacy | law | legalese | meaning

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This paper criticizes linguistic and cognitive approaches to the investigation and description of legal analysts's interpretation of indeterminacy of meaning in legal rules.