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- Title
Linguistic Hooks: Overcoming Adverse Cognitive Stock Structures in Statutory Interpretation.
- Authors
Smith, Michael R.
- Abstract
The article explores strategies, which enable a lawyer to evoke an alternative and more favorable stock structure which is compatible with both statutory language and the client's facts. The issues technically in statutory ambiguity do not pose meaningful linguistic problems for legal advocates. By evoking alternative stock structures for numeric references, majority is able to establish a modicum of ambiguity in the relevant statutory provision. The strategy for overcoming adverse stock structures in issues of technically out statutory ambiguity involves evoking in favorable stock experiences regarding the concept.
- Subjects
LEGAL services; STOCKS (Punishment); LAWYERS; LEGAL professions; PRACTICE of law; LAW; LEGAL research; LEGAL antiquities
- Publication
Legal Communication & Rhetoric: JALWD, 2011, Vol 8, p1
- ISSN
1550-0950
- Publication type
Article