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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812760603321

Autore

Williams Miriam F.

Titolo

From Black codes to recodification : removing the veil from regulatory writing / / Miriam Williams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, , 2017

©2010

ISBN

1-351-84421-0

1-351-84420-2

1-315-22454-2

0-89503-661-4

1-138-63795-5

0-89503-376-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (169 pages)

Collana

Baywood's Technical Communications

Disciplina

323.1196/0730764

Soggetti

Law - United States - Language

Administrative regulation drafting - United States

Bill drafting - United States

African Americans - Legal status, laws, etc - Texas - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : race, regulations, and trust -- Case study I-Texas Black codes of 1866 : identifying discourse markers of trust -- Texas laws and tacit laws : redefining black labor from "the nadir" to civil rights -- Case study II-Texas agencies : the challenge of evoking trust -- Case study III-contemporary black business owners : legalese, plain English, or both? -- An invention heuristic for regulatory writing.

Sommario/riassunto

"First Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company."--Provided by publisher.