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Law, Language and the Courtroom

Author : Stanislaw Gozdz Roszkowski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100048386X
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Law, Language and the Courtroom by : Stanislaw Gozdz Roszkowski

Download or read book Law, Language and the Courtroom written by Stanislaw Gozdz Roszkowski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the language of judges. It is concerned with understanding how language works in judicial contexts. Using a range of disciplinary and methodological perspectives, it looks in detail at the ways in which judicial discourse is argued, constructed, interpreted and perceived. Focusing on four central themes - constructing judicial discourse and judicial identities, judicial argumentation and evaluative language, judicial interpretation, and clarity in judicial discourse - the book’s ultimate goal is to provide a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of current critical issues of the role of language in judicial settings. Contributors include legal linguists, lawyers, legal scholars, legal practitioners, legal translators and anthropologists, who explore patterns of linguistic organisation and use in judicial institutions and analyse language as an instrument for understanding both the judicial decision-making process and its outcome. The book will be an invaluable resource for scholars in legal linguistics and those specialising in judicial argumentation and reasoning ,and forensic linguists interested in the use of language in judicial settings.

Lectures on Legal Linguistics

Author : Marcus Galdia
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 : 9783631725825
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Lectures on Legal Linguistics written by Marcus Galdia and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes law from the perspective of its language. The author proposes a theory of the legal language as language used in legally relevant communicational situations. He focuses on legal-linguistic operations such as legal argumentation and legal interpretation that steer the legal discourse.

Legal Language

Author : Peter M. Tiersma
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226803036
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)

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Book Synopsis Legal Language by : Peter M. Tiersma

Download or read book Legal Language written by Peter M. Tiersma and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of legal language slices through the polysyllabic thicket of legalese. The text shows to what extent legalese is simply a product of its past and demonstrates that arcane vocabulary is not an inevitable feature of our legal system.

Legal Linguistics Beyond Borders: Language and Law in a World of Media, Globalisation and Social Conflicts

Author : Friedemann Vogel
Publisher : Duncker & Humblot
ISBN 13 : 342855423X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (285 download)

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Book Synopsis Legal Linguistics Beyond Borders: Language and Law in a World of Media, Globalisation and Social Conflicts by : Friedemann Vogel

Download or read book Legal Linguistics Beyond Borders: Language and Law in a World of Media, Globalisation and Social Conflicts written by Friedemann Vogel and published by Duncker & Humblot. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world of law has changed in the last decades: it has become more globalized, multilingual and digital. The sections and contributions of this volume continue the interdisciplinary discussion about the challenges of this change for theory and practice of law and for the International Language and Law Association (ILLA) relaunched in 2017. First, the book gives a broad overview to the research field of legal linguistics, its history, research directions and open questions in different parts of the world (United States, Africa, Italy, Spain, Germany, Nordic countries and Russia). The second section consists of contributions about the relation of language, law and justice in a globalized world with a focus on multilingual and supranational law in the EU. The third section focuses on digitalization and mediatization of the law, the last section reports about the discussion at the ILLA relaunch conference in 2017.

Comparative Legal Linguistics

Author : Heikki E.S. Mattila
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317163028
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Book Synopsis Comparative Legal Linguistics by : Heikki E.S. Mattila

Download or read book Comparative Legal Linguistics written by Heikki E.S. Mattila and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines legal language as a language for special purposes, evaluating the functions and characteristics of legal language and the terminology of law. Using examples drawn from major and lesser legal languages, it examines the major legal languages themselves, beginning with Latin through German, French, Spanish and English. This second edition has been fully revised, updated and enlarged. A new chapter on legal Spanish takes into account the increasing importance of the language, and a new section explores the use (in legal circles) of the two variants of the Norwegian language. All chapters have been thoroughly updated and include more detailed footnote referencing. The work will be a valuable resource for students, researchers, and practitioners in the areas of legal history and theory, comparative law, semiotics, and linguistics. It will also be of interest to legal translators and terminologists.

Linguistics and Law

Author : Jeffrey P. Kaplan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429832435
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Linguistics and Law written by Jeffrey P. Kaplan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linguistics and Law offers a clear and concise introduction to making sense of the law through linguistics. Drawing on lexical semantics, syntax, and pragmatics to interpret both written and spoken laws, this book: addresses how to interpret legal documents such as contracts, statutes, constitutional provisions and trademarks; provides thorough analyses of "language crimes" including solicitation, perjury, defamation, and conspiracy, as well as talk between police and criminal suspects; analyzes the Miranda warning in depth; tackles the question of whether there is a "language" of the law; draws on real-life case studies to aid understanding. Written in an approachable, conversational style and aimed at undergraduate students with little or no prior knowledge of linguistics or law, this book is essential reading for those approaching this topic for the first time.

Language and Law

Author : Alan Durant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131543623X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Language and Law written by Alan Durant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language plays an essential role both in creating law and in governing its implementation. Providing an accessible and comprehensive introduction to this subject, Language and Law: describes the different registers and genres that make up spoken and written legal language and how they develop over time; analyses real-life examples drawn from court cases from different parts of the world, illustrating the varieties of English used in the courtroom by speakers occupying different roles; addresses the challenges presented to our notions of law and regulation by online communication; discusses the complex role of translation in bilingual and multilingual jurisdictions, including Hong Kong and Canada; and provides readings from key scholars in the discipline, including Lawrence Solan, Peter Goodrich, Marianne Constable, David Mellinkoff, and Chris Heffer. With a wide range of activities throughout, this accessible textbook is essential reading for anyone studying language and law or forensic linguistics. Sections A, B, and C of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315436258

Legal Linguistics

Author : Marcus Galdia
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783631594636
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (946 download)

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Download or read book Legal Linguistics written by Marcus Galdia and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces into the problems of Legal Linguistics. It starts with the most fundamental legal-linguistic question, i.e. how law is created and applied with linguistic means. In breaking down this vast question, the book identifies the linguistically relevant aspects of language use, especially its terminology, and scrutinizes the most significant legal-linguistic operations such as the legal argumentation, the legal interpretation, and the legal translation. Based on case analyses, it canvasses the language use strategies that are most instrumental in the developing of professionally convincing legal argumentation, primarily around terminological units. Towards the background of these and other linguistic operations in law, the book reflects upon some practical problems related to the regulation of language use and the emergence of the global law.

The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics

Author : Malcolm Coulthard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429638256
Total Pages : 842 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics written by Malcolm Coulthard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics offers a comprehensive survey of the subdiscipline of Forensic Linguistics, with this new edition providing both updated overviews from leading figures in the field and exciting new contributions from the next generation of forensic linguists. The Handbook is a unique work of reference to the leading ideas, debates, topics, approaches and methodologies in forensic linguistics and language and the law. It comprises 43 chapters, including entirely new contributions from many international experts, in the areas of Aboriginal claimants, appraisal and stance, author identities online, biased language in capital trials, corpus approaches, false confessions, forensic phonetics, forensic transcription, the historical courtroom, legal interpretation, multilingual law, police crisis negotiation, speaker profiling, and trolling. The chapters include a wealth of examples and case studies so the reader can see forensic linguistics applied and in action. Edited and authored by the world’s leading academics and practitioners, The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics is a vital resource for advanced students, researchers and scholars, and will also be of interest to legal, law enforcement and security professionals.

The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law

Author : Peter Meijes Tiersma
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199572120
Total Pages : 665 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (721 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law by : Peter Meijes Tiersma

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law written by Peter Meijes Tiersma and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a state-of-the-art account of past and current research in the interface between linguistics and law. It outlines the range of legal areas in which linguistics plays an increasing role and describes the tools and approaches used by linguists and lawyers in this vibrant new field. Through a combination of overview chapters, case studies, and theoretical descriptions, the volume addresses areas such as the history and structure of legal languages, its meaning and interpretation, multilingualism and language rights, courtroom discourse, forensic identification, intellectual property and linguistics, and legal translation and interpretation. Encyclopedic in scope, the handbook includes chapters written by experts from every continent who are familiar with linguistic issues that arise in diverse legal systems, including both civil and common law jurisdictions, mixed systems like that of China, and the emerging law of the European Union.

The Language of Judges

Author : Lawrence M. Solan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226767892
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The Language of Judges written by Lawrence M. Solan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since many legal disputes are battles over the meaning of a statute, contract, testimony, or the Constitution, judges must interpret language in order to decide why one proposed meaning overrides another. And in making their decisions about meaning appear authoritative and fair, judges often write about the nature of linguistic interpretation. In the first book to examine the linguistic analysis of law, Lawrence M. Solan shows that judges sometimes inaccurately portray the way we use language, creating inconsistencies in their decisions and threatening the fairness of the judicial system. Solan uses a wealth of examples to illustrate the way linguistics enters the process of judicial decision making: a death penalty case that the Supreme Court decided by analyzing the use of adjectives in a jury instruction; criminal cases whose outcomes depend on the Supreme Court's analysis of the relationship between adverbs and prepositional phrases; and cases focused on the meaning of certain words in the Constitution. Solan finds that judges often describe our use of language poorly because there is no clear relationship between the principles of linguistics and the jurisprudential goals that the judge wishes to promote. A major contribution to the growing interdisciplinary scholarship on law and its social and cultural context, Solan's lucid, engaging book is equally accessible to linguists, lawyers, philosophers, anthropologists, literary theorists, and political scientists.

Contemporary Approaches to Legal Linguistics

Author : Daniel Green
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643913877
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Approaches to Legal Linguistics written by Daniel Green and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2022-08 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, scholars explore and discuss current issues in Theoretical Legal Linguistics (TLL) and Applied Legal Linguistics (ALL), contributing to the growing body of international research in the field. Focus is placed on the interconnected skills, tasks and approaches to the study of legal language in its plethora of facets as presented at the first international conference and the second International Legal Linguistics Workshop (ILLWS19) of the Austrian Association for Legal Linguistics. The articles present research in the areas of contract interpretation, bijuralism, the European Reference Language System, clear language and communication in legal settings, issues in legal semantics, plain legal language in multilingual legislative drafting, legal language teaching, light verb constructions in legal German, forensic linguistic expert testimony, deontic modality in legislative drafting, migration and legal language, appeals in Russian and their qualification as language crimes, and graduation in the use of force statutes. The concepts, methods, and findings offer valuable insights into current research in legal linguistics.

Comparative Legal Linguistics

Author : Heikki E.S. Mattila
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317163036
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Book Synopsis Comparative Legal Linguistics by : Heikki E.S. Mattila

Download or read book Comparative Legal Linguistics written by Heikki E.S. Mattila and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines legal language as a language for special purposes, evaluating the functions and characteristics of legal language and the terminology of law. Using examples drawn from major and lesser legal languages, it examines the major legal languages themselves, beginning with Latin through German, French, Spanish and English. This second edition has been fully revised, updated and enlarged. A new chapter on legal Spanish takes into account the increasing importance of the language, and a new section explores the use (in legal circles) of the two variants of the Norwegian language. All chapters have been thoroughly updated and include more detailed footnote referencing. The work will be a valuable resource for students, researchers, and practitioners in the areas of legal history and theory, comparative law, semiotics, and linguistics. It will also be of interest to legal translators and terminologists.

Legal Discourse

Author : Peter Goodrich
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349112836
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Legal Discourse written by Peter Goodrich and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990-02-19 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawyers and the law have long been the object of popular criticism and satire for the obscurity and incomprehensibility of their language. Legal Discourse provides a novel historical and systematic account of the language of the legal institution together with a sustained criticism of legal exegesis and `legalese' more generally. In the first part of the work the doctrinal history of the legal discipline and its concepts of language, text and sign are examined and assessed. In the second part the contemporary disciples of linguistics, discourse analysis and communication studies are brought to bear upon the task of constructing a theory of legal discourse as a linguistics of legal power.

Lawyers' Language

Author : Alfred Phillips
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135788367
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Lawyers' Language written by Alfred Phillips and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interesting examination of law as language use or discourse, this study looks at the transformation of ordinary language into a special discourse for the purposes of the legal system. It is widely accepted that legal discourse is obscure, and often the public resent the fact that access to the law of the land is obstructed by the opaqueness of legal language. This book argues that the development and maintenance of law's special language can be justified. The myth that law can be written in either plain' or ordinary' language is exploded, and the linguistic obscurity of law is traced to its necessary complexity. The notion of representation is applied to the relation that exists between legal language and ordinary language.

Language and Law

Author : Silvia Marino
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319909053
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Language and Law written by Silvia Marino and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides an overview of EU competition law with a focus on the main developments in Italy, Spain, Greece, Poland and Croatia and offers an in-depth analysis of the role of language, translation and multilingualism in its implementation and interpretation. The first part of the book focuses on the main developments in EU competition law in action, which includes legislation, case law and praxis. This part can be divided into two subparts: the private enforcement of EU competition law, and the cooperation among enforcers, i.e. the EU Commission, the national competition authorities and the national courts. Language is of paramount importance in the enforcement of EU competition law, and as such, the second part highlights legal linguistic skills, showcasing the advantages and the challenges of multilingualism, especially in the context of the predominant use of English as the EU drafting and vehicular language. The volume brings together contributions prepared and presented as part of the EU-funded research project “Training Action for Legal Practitioners: Linguistic Skills and Translation in EU Competition Law".

Language and Law

Author : Annabelle Mooney
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137017961
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Language and Law written by Annabelle Mooney and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is legal language and where is it found? What does a forensic linguist do? How can linguistic skills help legal professionals? We are constantly surrounded by legal language, but sometimes it is almost impossible to understand. Providing extracts from real-life legal cases, this highly usable and accessible textbook brims with helpful examples and activities that will help you to navigate this area. Language and Law: - Introduces useful linguistic concepts and tools - Outlines the methods linguists employ to analyse legal language and language in legal situations - Includes topics on such as: written legal language; threats, warnings and speech act theory; courtroom interactions and the work linguists do to help solve crimes; physical and 'spoken' signs; and the creativity of legal language