Aspects of Language and the Law: Exploring Further Avenues
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As a discipline fundamentally based on text, the law is singular in its total dependence on language: legislators and drafters craft language to encode the law into text which judges, lawyers, jurists and other legal professionals of all times and climes subsequently interpret by detecting, dissecting and decoding the possible linguistic variations and loopholes lurking in between the lines. The discipline of law is, as such, an intensely metadiscoursal one where terms, structures and even punctuation are the subject of analysis, comment, interpretation and reinterpretation.References
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