The Oxford handbook of language and law / edited by Peter M. Tiersma and Lawrence M. Solan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tiersma, Peter Meijes.

Solan, Lawrence, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Language--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Law.

Law--Language.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

xxi, 642 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Summary:

A comprehensive guide to the field of language and law

Forward-looking and authoritative

Draws on the expertise of scholars and practitioners working in a diverse range of languages and legal systems Book jacket.

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 through 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 trademark 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [573]-628) and index.

ISBN:

9780199572120

0199572127

OCLC:

780439644