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Legal Discourse Across Cultures and Systems

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What exactly is legal about legal language? What happens to legal language when it is used across linguistic, national, socio-political, cultural, and legal systems? In what way is generic integrit...
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Price: £45.00
Pages: 340
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Imprint: Hong Kong University Press
Publication Date: 01 April 2008
Trim Size: 9.04 X 6.45 in
ISBN: 9789622098510
Format: Hardcover
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"This book makes a major contribution to the study of legal discourse and to our understanding of variation in professional communication practices across cultures. An outcome of a major international research project, the volume contains a series of stud

"This book makes an important contribution to fields of international law, discourse analysis and intercultural communication. It will be an invaluable resource for legal scholars, applied linguists, legal translators and anyone interested in the influenc
Vijay K. Bhatia is Professor in the Department of English and Communication, City University of Hong Kong. Christopher N. Candlin is Senior Research Professor in the Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University. Jan Engberg is Associate Professor in the Department of Language and Business Communication, Aarhus School of Business, Denmark.