How Language Works in Politics: The Impact of Vague Legislation on Policy

Matthew Williams (University of Oxford)

How Language Works in Politics: The Impact of Vague Legislation on Policy
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Bristol University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
26 June 2018
Pages
256
ISBN
9781529200201

How Language Works in Politics: The Impact of Vague Legislation on Policy

Matthew Williams (University of Oxford)

This book discusses the impact vague legislation has on powers, duties and rights in the policy around immigration, homelessness and anti-discrimination. It assesses how Parliament has attempted to clarify its intent with law on human rights, freedom of information and equality. It argues that changes to legislative language, especially the increasing use of vague semantic and pragmatic parts of speech, has increased the vagueness of policy and made it lack any central tendency.

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