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Watt, Gary (2020) Sound and fury signifying Brexit. Law Text Culture, 24 . pp. 1-26. 8.
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Official URL: https://ro.uow.edu.au/ltc/vol24/iss1/8
Abstract
“Acoustic Jurisprudence” (Parker, 2015) seeks to move our appreciation of the operation of sound in law beyond the merely metaphorical use of acoustic language to the audible quality of the soundscape itself. In this paper, I seek to connect the linguistic-metaphorical to the audible-sensory in the soundscape of the United Kingdom’s legal secession from the European Union. My context is the “Brexit” dispute as it has been played out in the UK Parliament, the UK Supreme Court, and elsewhere, especially as that dispute came to a crescendo on two key occasions in the latter part of 2019. The first occasion was the Government’s attempt in September 2019 to prorogue parliament for an unusually long period, accompanied, later that month, by the UK Supreme Court’s decision to declare that attempt unlawful and therefore null and void. The second occasion was the UK General Election held on 12 December 2019, in which the Conservative Party – led by Prime Minister Boris Johnson with the election slogan “Get Brexit Done” – secured its largest majority in the House of Commons since 1987.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | K Law [Moys] > KF Common Law, British Isles > KF England and Wales J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain J Political Science > JZ International relations K Law [LC] > KD England and Wales K Law [Moys] > KF Common Law, British Isles K Law [LC] > KJ-KKZ European law K Law [Moys] > KZ Non-legal Subjects M Music and Books on Music > M Music |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Referendum -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st century, Music -- Law and legislation, Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- European Union countries, European Union countries -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain, Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 2007-, Press and politics, Journalism -- Political aspects, Mass media -- Political aspects | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Law Text Culture | ||||||
| Publisher: | Legal Intersections Research Centre | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1322-9060 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 2020 | ||||||
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 28 October 2020 | ||||||
| Volume: | 24 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1-26 | ||||||
| Article Number: | 8 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||||
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