Title

• Legal Language: Pragmatics, Poetics, and Social Power

Published In

• Annual Review of Anthropology

Date

• 1994

Volume

• 23

Creator

• Elizabeth Mertz

Bibliographic Citation

• 23 Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 435 (1994)

Keywords

• law
• language structure
• contextualization
• politics of discourse
• social construction of legal categories

Collections

• University of Wisconsin Law School Faculty Scholarship Collection