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Kevelson, Roberta. 1982. Language and legal speech acts: Decisions. In Pietro, Robert J. Di, ed. Linguistics and the professions: Proceedings of the Second Annual Delaware Symposium on Language Studies. Ablex Publishing Corporation. pp. 121–131.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

legalese | question-answer sequence | speech act | stating

Annotation

K. argues that 'legal speech acts' are not statements but question/answer constructions; she focuses on the underlying interrogative structure of the legal decision.