Our Word Is Our Bond: How Legal Speech Acts

by Marianne Constable

Book Overview

Words can be misspoken, misheard, misunderstood, or misappropriated; they can be inappropriate, inaccurate, dangerous, or wrong. When speech goes wrong, law often steps in as itself a speech act or series of speech acts. Our Word Is Our Bond offers a nuanced approach to language and its interaction and relations with modern law. Marianne Constable argues that, as language, modern law makes claims and hears claims of justice and injustice,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804774943
• ISBN13: 9780804774949
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Stanford Law Books
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"