Language and Law

Language and Law
Title Language and Law PDF eBook
Author Alan Durant
Publisher Routledge
Pages 322
Release 2017-05-08
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 131543623X

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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

The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law

The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law
Title The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law PDF eBook
Author Peter Meijes Tiersma
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 665
Release 2012-03-08
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0199572127

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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.

Speaking of Language and Law

Speaking of Language and Law
Title Speaking of Language and Law PDF eBook
Author Lawrence Solan
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 329
Release 2015-07-28
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0199334196

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Among the most prominent scholars of language and law is Peter Tiersma, a law professor at Loyola Law School with a doctorate in linguistics (co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law). Tiersma's significant body of work traverses a variety of legal and linguistic fields. This book offers a selection of twelve of Tiersma's most influential publications, divided into five thematic areas that are critical to both law and linguistics: Language and Law as a Field of Inquiry, Legal Language and its History, Language and Civil Liability, Language and Criminal Justice, and Jury Instructions. Each paper is accompanied by a brief commentary from a leading scholar in the field, offering a substantive conversation about the ramifications of Tiersma's work and the disagreements that have often surrounded it.

Translation Issues in Language and Law

Translation Issues in Language and Law
Title Translation Issues in Language and Law PDF eBook
Author F. Olsen
Publisher Springer
Pages 245
Release 2009-03-19
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0230233740

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With contributions from world-class specialists this first book-length work looks at translation issues in forensic linguistics, where accuracy and cultural understandings play a prominent part in the legal process.

The Language of the Law

The Language of the Law
Title The Language of the Law PDF eBook
Author David Mellinkoff
Publisher Wipf and Stock Publishers
Pages 540
Release 2004-05-13
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1592446906

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This book tells what the language of the law is, how it got that way and how it works out in the practice. The emphasis is more historical than philosophical, more practical than pedantic.

Researching Language and the Law

Researching Language and the Law
Title Researching Language and the Law PDF eBook
Author Davide S. Giannoni
Publisher Peter Lang
Pages 292
Release 2010
Genre Law
ISBN 9783034304436

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This volume reflects the latest work of scholars specialising in the linguistic and legal aspects of normative texts across languages (English, Danish, French, Italian, Spanish) and law systems. Like other domains of specialised language use, legal discourse is subject to the converging pressures of internationalisation and of emerging practices that destabilise well-established norms and routines. In an integrated, interdependent context, supranational laws, rules and procedures are gradually developed and harmonised to regulate issues that can no longer be dealt with by national laws alone, as in the case of the European Union. The contributors discuss the impact of such developments on the construction, evolution and hybridisation of legal texts, analysed both linguistically and from the practitioner's standpoint.

Law, Language and the Courtroom

Law, Language and the Courtroom
Title Law, Language and the Courtroom PDF eBook
Author Stanislaw Gozdz Roszkowski
Publisher Routledge
Pages 247
Release 2021-11-25
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 100048386X

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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.