Language And Law

Author : Alan Durant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131543623X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( 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

Author : Peter Meijes Tiersma
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199572120
Total Pages : 665 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Peter M. Tiersma
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226803036
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Lawrence Solan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199334196
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speaking of Language and Law written by Lawrence Solan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : F. Olsen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230233740
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Translation Issues in Language and Law written by F. Olsen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Silvia Marino
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319909053
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( 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".

Author : Andrei Marmor
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019871453X
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language of Law written by Andrei Marmor and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employing recent advances in philosophy of language to elucidate key aspects of legal communication, this volume examines how the language of legal directives can determine the content of the law, thereby enabling a better understanding of the boundaries between normative and linguistic determinants of legal content.

Author : Friedemann Vogel
Publisher : Duncker & Humblot
ISBN 13 : 342855423X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Christopher Hutton
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748633529
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language, Meaning and the Law written by Christopher Hutton and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language, Meaning and the Law offers an accessible, critical guide to debates about linguistic meaning and interpretation in relation to legal language. Law is an ideal domain for considering fundamental questions relating to how we assign meanings to words, understand and comment on texts, and deal with socially and ideologically significant questions of interpretation. The book argues that theoretical issues of concern to linguists, philosophers, literary theorists and others are illuminated by the demands of the legal context, since law is driven by the need for practical solutions and for determinate outcomes based on explicit reasoning. Topics covered include: the relationship of linguistics to legal theory, indeterminacy and statutory interpretation, the theory and practice of using dictionaries in law, defamation and language in the public sphere, and the distinction between perjury and deception. This book does not assume specialist knowledge of the field, and is designed as a self-contained, advanced introduction to a fascinating area of study. The reader will gain an overall insight into issues and debates about meaning and interpretation, as well as an understanding of how these questions are shaped by the legal context.

Author : Frances Russell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780132804547
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Law and Language written by Frances Russell and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: