Abstract of "Speech Acts and the Law" (1980)
- A preliminary account of various legal topics--including defamation,
judicial notice, hearsay, and operative words--which can be specially illuminated
by speech-act theory.
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Michael Hancher
Department of English, University of Minnesota
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