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Linda L. Berger and Kathryn M. Stanchi: Legal Persuasion: A Rhetorical Approach to the Science

Routledge, 2018, 170 pp, ISBN: 978-1-4724-6455-2

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Yu, W. Linda L. Berger and Kathryn M. Stanchi: Legal Persuasion: A Rhetorical Approach to the Science. Int J Semiot Law 31, 1003–1008 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-018-9591-8

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