Marianne Constable
Our Word Is Our Bond: How Legal Speech Acts (The Cultural Lives of Law)
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 interactio...
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