Speaking of language and law : conversations on the work of Peter Tiersma / edited by Lawrence M. Solan, Janet Ainsworth, and Roger W. Shuy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tiersma, Peter Meijes, author.

Contributor:

Solan, Lawrence, 1952- editor.

Ainsworth, Janet, editor.

Shuy, Roger W., editor.

Series:

Oxford studies in language and law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Language.

Law.

Tiersma, Peter Meijes.

Physical Description:

xix, 306 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]

Contents:

Excerpt from a history of the languages of law (in the Ooxford handbook of language and law) / Peter M. Tiersma

Excerpt from legal language / Peter M. Tiersma

Excerpt from parchment, paper, pixels / Peter M. Tiersma

Excerpt from some myths about legal language / Peter M. Tiersma

On the relationship between legal and ordinary language / Frederick Schauer

Legal language and its history : quo imus? qua imus? / Ronald R. Butters

Philosophical hermeneutics in the age of pixels : Hans-Georg Gadamer, Peter Tiersma, and Dasein in the age of the internet / Frank S. Ravitch

The language of lawyers and the language of plumbers / Edward Finegan

Words, words, words : but what's in a text? / Dieter Stein

Excerpt from reassessing unilateral contracts / Peter M. Tiersma

Philosophy of language, unilateral contracts, and the law / Brian H. Bix

How to do legal things with words : the contracts scholarship of Peter Tiersma / Sidney W. DeLong

Tiersma contra mundum in defence of promises / Peter Goodrich

Formalism, speech acts, and the realities of contract formation / Jeffrey M. Lipshaw

Excerpts from the language of silence / Peter M. Tiersma

Excerpt from nonverbal communication and the freedom of speech / Peter M. Tiersma

Law's metalinguistics : silence, speech, and action / Elizabeth Mertz

The sounds of silence / Malcolm Coulthard

Speech or silence : within and beyond language and law / Meizhen Liao

Excerpt from the language of consent in rape law (in Janet Cotterill (ed.), The language of sexual crime (pp. 91-97) / Peter M. Tiersma

"Inferring" consent in the context of rape and sexual assault / Susan Ehrlich

Felicitous consent / Tim Grant & Kerrie Spaul

Reflections on Peter Tiersma's "the language and consent in rape law" / Gregory M. Matoesian

Speaking of consent / Gail Stygall

Excerpt from the language of defamation / Peter M. Tiersma

Defamation as speech act: a theory that works / John M. Conley

Applyhing Tiersm'a defamation theory to defamation cases / Roger W. Shuy

Scarlet letter or badge of honour? : semantic interpretation in changing contexts of culture / Krzysztof Kredens

Excerpt from parchment, paper, pixels (pp. 169-176, starting with "dynamic statutes") / Peter M. Tiersma

Excerpt from the textualization of precedent (pp. 1187-89, 1257-62) / Peter M. Tiersma

Talk about text as text / Lawrence M. Solan

Textualization, textualism, and purpose-stating preambles / Jeffrey P. Kaplan

Between paper and pixels : how the form of modern laws changed their function / Dru Stevenso

Except from the language of perjury : "literal truth," ambiguity, and the false statement requirement / Peter M. Tiersma

"Threats" (from speaking of crime (pp. 198-204) / Lawrence M. Solan and Peter M. Tiersma

How we play games with words in the law / Janet Ainsworth

Toward a communicative approach to law- and rule-making / Philip Gaines

Threats : a pragmalinguistic approach to the analysis of a speech crime / Susan Berk-Seligson

Except from the judge as linguist / Peter M. Tiersma

Applied (forensic) linguistics in autochthonic and allochthonic use / Hannes Kniffka

The sound of silence : Miranda waivers, selective literalism and social context / Richard A. Leo

Words alone / Laurie L. Levenson

Sizzling irons : speaking of criminal justice / Frances Rock

Excerpt from the rocky road to legal reform / Peter M. Tiersma

Navigating the rocky road / Bethany K. Dumas

Authority and accommodation : judicial responses to jurors' questions / Chris Heffer

Jury instructions written for jurors : a perennial challenge / Nancy S. Marder

Bibliography of Peter Tiersma's work.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199334186

0199334188

OCLC:

899114090