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  • LEGAL LANGUAGE
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    LEGAL LANGUAGE
    PETER M. TIERSMA
    Statutes, judicial opinions, contracts, deeds, and wills profoundly affect our daily lives, but their language tends to be often nearly impossible to understand. In this lively history of legal language, Peter Tiersma slices through the thicket of legalese, explaining where it comes from, why lawyers continue to cling to it, and why it's doesn't have to be an inevitable feature...

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  • SPEAKING OF CRIME
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    SPEAKING OF CRIME
    LAWRENCE M. SOLAN / PETER M. TIERSMA / TAMMY GALES
    An essential introduction to the use and misuse of language within the criminal justice system, updated for a new generation. Does everyone understand the Miranda warning? Why do people confess to a crime they did not commit? Can linguistic experts identify who wrote an anonymous threatening letter? Since its first publication, Speaking of Crime has been answering these questio...

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  • SPEAKING OF CRIME
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    SPEAKING OF CRIME
    LAWRENCE M. SOLAN / PETER M. TIERSMA
    Why do so many people voluntarily consent to searches by have the police search their person or vehicle when they know that they are carrying contraband or evidence of illegal activity? Does everyone understand the Miranda warning? How well can people recognize a voice on tape? Can linguistic experts identify who wrote an anonymous threatening letter? Speaking of Crime answers ...

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  • PARCHMENT, PAPER, PIXELS
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    PARCHMENT, PAPER, PIXELS
    PETER M. TIERSMA
    Technological revolutions have had an unquestionable, if still debatable, impact on culture and society—perhaps none more so than the written word. In the legal realm, the rise of literacy and print culture made possible the governing of large empires, the memorializing of private legal transactions, and the broad distribution of judicial precedents and legislation. Yet each of...

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