Handbook of Communication in the Legal Sphere

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2018

Handbook of Communication in the Legal Sphere

Edited by: Jacqueline Visconti
In collaboration with: Monika Rathert

Volume 14 in the series Handbooks of Applied Linguistics [HAL]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614514664

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About this book

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 investigations along with an emerging new field (Legal Visual Studies) are discussed. Communication addresses the necessity of an ongoing interaction between jurilinguists and legal professionals. This interaction requires persuasive, convincing, and acceptable reasons in justifying transparency, visual analyses, and dialogue with the relevant audience.
The book is divided into five complementary sections: Professional Legal Communication; Legal Language in a Multilingual and Multicultural Context; Legal Communication in the Courtroom; Laws on Language and Language Rights; and Visualizing Legal Communication. The book shows the diversity in the understanding and practicing of legal communication and paves the way to an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural operation in our common understanding of legal communication. This book is suitable for advanced students in Linguistics and Law, and for academics and researchers working in the field of Language and Law and jurilinguists.

Twofold conception of communication in legal settings.
Communication as a bridge between traditional linguistic and legal approaches.
Emphasis on dynamic methods of interpretation as primary means of meaning construction in legal communication.

Author / Editor information

Jacqueline Visconti, Genoa University, Italy

Reviews

"Overall, this is a highly relevant, well researched and well-edited book which will certainly inspire future research. It will be of interest to advanced students of legal linguistics, researchers in language and law, jurilinguists, and anyone interested in the interface between language and law, particularly communication in the legal sphere."
Lelija Socanac in: Linguist List 30.4584 (02.12.2019), https://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-4584.html

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
List Of Figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	IX
List Of Figures Jacqueline Visconti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: The Foundations Of Legal Language
1. Legal Drafting Christopher Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2. The Interpretation Of Laws Lawrence M. Solan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
3. Language Rights Janny Hc Leung Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
4. Language Planning And Legal Systems Richard Powell Publicly Available Download PDF	83
5. Semantic Processing Of Legal Texts Tommaso Agnoloni and Giulia Venturi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Part II: Forensic Linguistics And Court Setting
6. Implicit legal norms Barbara Pasa and Lucia Morra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
7. Authorship attribution analysis Sabine Ehrhardt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
8. Topic management in police-suspect interviewing Georgina Heydon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
9. Forensic voice comparison Michael Jessen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
10. Narrative practices and voice in court Chris Heffer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	256
Part III: Legal language outside of court
11. Linguistic analysis in trade mark law: current approaches and new challenges Alan Durant and Jennifer Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
12. Defamation, language and linguistics Roger W. Shuy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
13. Future directions in law and popular culture: a British perspective Peter Robson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
Part IV: International legal settings
14. Multilingual interpretation of European Union law Silvia Ferreri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
15. Contemporary Chinese law: a linguistic perspective Marina Timoteo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	402
16. Unity and varieties of Arabic as a legal language: practices of interpretation and translation Roberta Aluffi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	423
17. Law, language and communication in the Indian context Domenico Francavilla Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	435
18. The many languages of Japanese legal language Andrea Ortolani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	450
Biographical notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	479
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	485

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Advanced Students and Researchers in Linguistics and Law; Jurilinguists.
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 488
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 9
- Coloured Illustrations: 6
- Tables: 5
Keywords: Law; Language; Communication and Interpretation; Legal Genre Analysis; Multiculturalism and Multilingualism; Legal Visual Studies

eBook

Published: September 24, 2018
ISBN: 9781614514664

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Published: September 24, 2018
ISBN: 9781614516699

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ISBN: 9781501510922