An edition of The Oxford handbook of language and law
(2012)
The Oxford handbook of language and law
by Peter Meijes Tiersma and Lawrence Solan
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2012, Oxford University Press
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Table of Contents
Introduction / Lawrence M. Solan and Peter M. Tiersma
Pt. I. Legal language
A history of the languages of law / Peter M. Tiersma
Legal vocabulary / Heikki E. S. Mattla
The grammar and structure of legal texts / Risto Hiltunen
Text and genre / Maurizio Gotti
The plain language movement / Mark Adler
Pt. II. The interpretation of legal texts
Linguistic issues in statutory interpretation / Lawrence M. Solan
Contract formation as a speech act / Sanford Schange
Constitutional interpretation / Robert W. Bennett
Ambiguity and vagueness in legal interpretation / Ralf Poscher
Legal interpretation and the philosophy of language / Brian H. Bix
Pt. III. Multilingualism and translation
Bilingual interpretation rules as a component of language rights in Canada / Michel Bastarache
Word meaning and the problem of a globalized legal order / Jan Engberg
Challenges to the legal translator / Susan Sarcevic
Language and law in the European Union : the multilingual jurisprudence of the ECJ / Karen McAuliffe
FIfty years of multilingual interpretation in the European Union / Cornelis J. W. Baaij.
Pt. IV. Language rights
Linguistic human rights / Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
Language policy in the United States / Peter M. Tiersma
Legal rights of linguistic minorities in the European Union / Durk Gorter and Jasone Cenoz
Investigating the language situation in Africa / Tunde Olusola Opeibi
Pt. V. Language and criminal law
The meaning of silence in the right to remain silent / Janet Ainsworth
Potential impact of juvenile suspects' linguistic abilities on Miranda understanding and appreciation / Naomi E. S. Goldstein ... [et al.]
The caution in England and Wales / Frances Rock
The language of consent in police encounters / Janice Nadler and J. D. Trout
The language of crime / Peter M. Tiersma and Lawrence M. Solan
Interrogation throught pragmatic implication : sticking to the letter of the law while violating its intent / Deborah Davis and Richard A. Leo
Pt. VI. Courtroom discourse
Discourse in the US courtroom / Gail Stygall
Courtroom discourse in Japan's new judicial order / Mami Hiraike Okawara
Courtroom discourse in China / Meizhen Liao
The language of criminal trials in an inquisitorial system : the case of the Netherlands / Martha L. Komter and Marijke Malsch
Linguistic issues in courtroom interpretation / Susan Berk-Seligson
Instructing the jury / Nancy S. Marder.
Pt. VII. Intellectual property
Using linguistics in trademark cases / Roger W. Shuy
Language and copyright / Ronald R. Butters
The psycholinguistic basis of distinctiveness in tradmark law / Syugo Hotta and Masahiro Fujita
Pt. VIII. Identification of authorship and deception
Author identification in the forensic setting / Carole E. Chaski
Corpus linguistics in authorship identification / Krzysztof Kredens and Malcolm Coulthard
Detecting plagiarism / David Woolls
Pt. IX. Speaker indentification
Language analysis for determination of origin : objective evidence for refugee status determination / Peter L. Patrick
Factors affecting lay persons' identification of speakers / A. Daniel Yarmey
Forensic speaker comparison : a linguistic-acoustic perspective / Paul Foulkes and Peter French.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [573]-628) and index.
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