Handbook of Communication in the Legal Sphere /

This volume explores communication and its implications on interpretation, vagueness, multilingualism, and multiculturalism. It investigates cross-cultural perspectives with original methods, models, and arguments emphasizing national, EU, and international perspectives. Both traditional fields of i...

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Other Authors: Rathert, Monika, Visconti, Jacqueline (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2018]
©2018
Series:Handbooks of Applied Linguistics [HAL] ; 14
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ISBN:9781614514664
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • List Of Figures
  • List Of Figures / Visconti, Jacqueline
  • Part I: The Foundations Of Legal Language
  • 1. Legal Drafting / Williams, Christopher
  • 2. The Interpretation Of Laws / Solan, Lawrence M.
  • 3. Language Rights / Leung, Janny Hc
  • 4. Language Planning And Legal Systems / Powell, Richard
  • 5. Semantic Processing Of Legal Texts / Agnoloni, Tommaso / Venturi, Giulia
  • Part II: Forensic Linguistics And Court Setting
  • 6. Implicit legal norms / Pasa, Barbara / Morra, Lucia
  • 7. Authorship attribution analysis / Ehrhardt, Sabine
  • 8. Topic management in police-suspect interviewing / Heydon, Georgina
  • 9. Forensic voice comparison / Jessen, Michael
  • 10. Narrative practices and voice in court / Heffer, Chris
  • Part III: Legal language outside of court
  • 11. Linguistic analysis in trade mark law: current approaches and new challenges / Durant, Alan / Davis, Jennifer
  • 12. Defamation, language and linguistics / Shuy, Roger W.
  • 13. Future directions in law and popular culture: a British perspective / Robson, Peter
  • Part IV: International legal settings
  • 14. Multilingual interpretation of European Union law / Ferreri, Silvia
  • 15. Contemporary Chinese law: a linguistic perspective / Timoteo, Marina
  • 16. Unity and varieties of Arabic as a legal language: practices of interpretation and translation / Aluffi, Roberta
  • 17. Law, language and communication in the Indian context / Francavilla, Domenico
  • 18. The many languages of Japanese legal language / Ortolani, Andrea
  • Biographical notes
  • Index