Legal discourse

Rajah, Jothie

doi:10.4324/9781315739342-33

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“…(p. 95) The purpose of this is not to use laws to demonstrate power; instead, it is the legislation process that allows governance to be achieved. In this way, we deviate slightly from Rajah (2018), who opined that 'discourses that engage with questions of legitimacy might also be regarded as inherently legal in nature' (p. 484). Conversely, legal discourses are by themselves a form of engagement with questions of legitimacy.…”

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“…Such was the case with the 2018 hearings of the Select Committee on Deliberate Online Falsehoods -even before legislation had been passed, clear attempts were already made to use the process of legislation as a tactic to legitimise power. In her critique of Singapore's political use of its legal framework, Rajah (2018) noted the executive's intent to 'demarcate a specific enactment as beyond the expertise of the legal profession is to discursively subordinate "law" to power', to the extent that '"law" lacks the capacity to scrutinise and limit power' (p. 489). Rajah was describing the processes that revolved around the Select Committee hearings during the 1986 amendments to the Legal Profession Bill, but the hearings in 2018 for deliberate online falsehoods were similar in substance to what Rajah has outlined.…”

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From contempt of court to fake news: public legitimisation and governance in mediated Singapore

Lee

2019

Media International Australia

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Common perceptions and literature on media in Singapore suggest an authoritarian government that either silences or co-opts public media, using repressive laws that are passed unopposed, given the People’s Action Party (PAP) government’s super majority in Parliament. In practice, laws in Singapore are not simply crafted to maximise their effects in silencing political criticism but are also carefully debated – at times with the PAP’s strongest opponents – in public, to rationalise their implementation even before such laws are applied. In studying public discourse surrounding four recent pieces of media legislation, this article argues that the Singapore government strives not just for its right to pass laws at will but is equally concerned with building its legitimacy to govern using these laws. This sophisticated practice, in line with Foucault’s concept of governmentality, seeks to govern by convincing the citizenry to consent the suppression of their own socio-cultural and political freedom.

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Section: Law As Subservient To Powercontrasting

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confidence: 99%

From contempt of court to fake news: public legitimisation and governance in mediated Singapore

Lee

2019

Media International Australia

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Structural-semantic ways of gender labelling of legal terms in the United Kingdom and the United States of America

Volgina

Lazovskaya

2023

Philology. Theory & Practice

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The aim of the study is to determine the structural-semantic ways of gender explication using the legal terminology of the United Kingdom and the United States of America. The paper sheds light on the concept of “gender” in the ordinary and legal sense, substantiates the legitimacy of the influence of the gender factor on the structure and content of legal terms and concepts, provides a detailed description of the linguistic means used for gender labelling of terms. The paper demonstrates the inextricable connection of law, language and gender through the texts of laws, legal definitions, legal discourse. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that using an integrated approach, the main mechanisms of gender labelling of a legal term have been identified for the first time: at the level of structure, namely through a word-formation model, through the formation of compound terms; at the level of meaning, namely through definition. As a result of the study, it has been found that gender is represented in the semantics and structure of legal terms in the United Kingdom and the United States of America. The role of gender as a system-forming factor in the development of the Anglo-American legal terminology has been proved.

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Legal discourse

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From contempt of court to fake news: public legitimisation and governance in mediated Singapore

From contempt of court to fake news: public legitimisation and governance in mediated Singapore

Structural-semantic ways of gender labelling of legal terms in the United Kingdom and the United States of America

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