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Discourse analysis and social construction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2008

Charles Bazerman
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Complex social activities—such as maintaining a legal system, fostering a literary system, or developing communally validated knowledge—rely on language as the medium through which these activities are accomplished. Law, literature, science, religion, politics, and even economics are socially constructed through discourse. Special language tools and uses have developed in conjuction with the rise of these activities. Thus, we may well say that the construction of legal language is part and parcel of the construction of the legal instructions that order social lives, and that the language acts using legal language were developed in coordination with the elaboration of roles, responsibilities, and relationships of legal actors.

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Foundations of Discourse
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Annual Review of Applied Linguistics , Volume 11 , March 1990 , pp. 77 - 83
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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