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Publication details [#51003]

Charnock, H.Ross. 2009. Overruling as a speech act: Performativity and normative discourse. Journal of Pragmatics 41 (3) : 401–426.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

illocution | juridical language | law | performativity | perlocution

Language as a subject

English, American | English, British

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper discusses linguistic and legal problems related to overruling declarations of judges in higher courts, with reference to both English and American law and language.