TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hahn,Judith
TI  - The language of canon law
T2  - Oxford studies in language and law
SN  - 9780197674277
AV  - KBU160 .H34 2023
U1  - 262.9 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Canon law
KW  - Language
KW  - Interpretation and construction
KW  - Religion
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Religion & beliefs
KW  - thema
N1  - Also issued in print: 2023; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - In this book, Judith Hahn explores the legal order of the Roman Catholic Church to better understand how the Roman Catholic Church communicates as a legal institution. She argues that the language of canon law reveals the political ideology of the church hierarchy, and she takes up the tools of language and law scholarship to examine and challenge that language. Hahn examines the grammar and terminology of canon law, and how canon law language makes use of linguistic tricks and techniques to create its typical sound and discusses the comprehension difficulties that arise out of ambiguities in the law, out of transfer problems between legal and common language, and out of canon law's confusing mix of legal, doctrinal, and moral norms
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197674246.001.0001
ER  -