Law, Language, and Power, Third Edition
by
John M. Conley, William M. O'Barr, Robin Conley Riner
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
Is it “just words” when a lawyer cross-examines a rape victim in the hopes of getting her to admit an interest in her attacker? Is it “just words” when the Supreme Court hands down a decision or when business people draw up a contract? In tackling the question of how an abstract entity exerts...