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Creating Legal Worlds : Story and Style in a Culture of Argument / Greig Henderson.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Henderson, Greig, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law--Language.
- Law.
- Semantics (Law).
- Law and literature.
- Forensic oratory.
- Rhetoric.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (192 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Through careful analyses of notable cases from Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, Greig Henderson analyses how the rhetoric of storytelling often carries as much argumentative weight within a judgement as the logic of legal distinctions.
- Contents:
- The cost of persuasion: figure, story, and eloquence in the rhetoric of judicial discourse
- Pure and impure styles: formalism and pragmatism in the language of decision writing
- The perils of analogy: legal world-making and judicial self fashioning in Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad
- Murder, they wrote: the rhetoric of causation in the language of the law
- Narrative theory and the art of judgment: the anatomy of a Supreme Court decision
- The look in his eyes: Rusk v. State, State v. Rusk
- Rhetoric, philosophy, and law
- Postscript: rhetoric, postmodernism, and skepticism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Okt 2018)
- ISBN:
- 1-4426-2451-5
- 1-4426-2450-7
- OCLC:
- 911266552
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