In varying degrees, legal language has always differed
from ordinary speech.
It may still be asked, however, whether words taken
from ordinary speech, familiar to everybody, can appropriately be applied or addressed to God.
Not exact matches
On the theoretical side, it ranges
from the speaking or writing of sentences of modest import up to the enunciation of important scientific or philosophical truths; on the practical, it ranges
from the involvement of rational
speech with the
ordinary tasks of daily life up to its involvement with moral decisions of the most momentous kind.
They are not the elements of a new language, distinct
from our
ordinary language, but simply represent a shorthand for our everyday
speech, as pertaining to mathematics.
To me, these were
speech acts, typical
ordinary language practices, performative utterances, that I knew all about
from JL Austin's How to Do Things with Words.
The education secretary Justine Greening will today defend grammar schools in a major
speech, claiming that selective schools already benefit young people
from «
ordinary working class backgrounds».