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What are language and culture considered as?
Resources for carrying out the business of social relations
What are the three foundations upon which language and culture are built?
Social intelligence, relationship-grounded social group organization, historically cumulative frame of community-grounded conventions
What do language and culture inhibit and promote?
The kinds of social goals we may have, and the means we have for achieving them
What do differences in scholarly traditions' view of language or culture arise from?
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What do language and culture together yield?
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What term is used to describe the regular patterns and organized sequences of elements in the discourse of law?
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Why can legal documents be difficult for lay readers to understand?
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What is the significance of understanding the genre when reading a text?
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In the discussion between Charles Fillmore and legal authorities, what did Fillmore find the sentence from a contract to be?
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Why do lawyers have less difficulty understanding legal documents compared to lay readers?
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