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My concern in what follows is to frame, to outline and to exemplify, the general characteristics of a concept of legal discourse or, in the terms of the preceding chapter, a materialist rhetoric of law. Substantively my procedure, one which I will by and large assume to be self-explanatory, will be that of translating the topology of discourse already proposed, into a schematic account of legal discourse. There are, however, two preliminary points to be made, both of which may broadly be said to concern the scope and potential development of what is admittedly a nascent discipline.
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R. Jakobson, Selected Writings, II (The Hague: Mouton, 1971 ) 567, 565 (my italics).
For example, Z. K. Bankowski and G. Mungham, Images of Law ( London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1976 );
T. Mathieson, Law, Society and Political Action ( London: Academic Press, 1980 );
R. M. Unger, Law in Modern Society ( New York: Free Press, 1976 ).
Cf. in a slightly narrower context, H. Collins, Marxism and Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983 ) pp. 34–45, 52–74.
H. Kelsen, General Theory of Law and State (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1945) pp. 216ff.
See for example, J. A. G. Griffith, The Politics of the Judiciary ( London: Fontana, 1985 ) pp. 17–39;
A. Paterson, ‘Judges, A Political Elite?’ (1974) British Journal of Law and Society 118.
D. Garland and P. Young, The Power to Punish (London: Heinemann, 1983) especially chapters 1 and 9.
R. Barthes, Elements of Semiology ( London: Cape, 1967 ) pp. 89–95.
O. Ducrot and T. Todorov, Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Sciences of Language ( Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1981 ) p. 21.
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Goodrich, P. (1987). Law as Social Discourse II. In: Legal Discourse. Language, Discourse, Society . Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08818-8_7
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