Intersections between Law and Language: Disciplinary Concepts in Second Language Legal Literacy

Alissa J. Hartig

doi:10.1515/slgr-2016-0016

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Intersections between Law and Language: Disciplinary Concepts in Second Language Legal Literacy

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

Volume 45 (2016): Issue 1 (June 2016)

By: Alissa J. Hartig

Open Access

|Jul 2016

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