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Peer reviewedTopf, Mel A. – Language and Communication, 1992
Analyzes U.S. Supreme Court decisions as speech acts to determine how the opinions communicate the legitimacy of the court's decisions and secure the consensus of the discourse community, investigating such aspects as institutional context, the adversarial context of legal communication, the grammar of conflict, and the rhetoric of discovery. (64…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Court Litigation, Discourse Analysis, English
