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

Contributor:

Solan, Lawrence, 1952- editor.

Ainsworth, Janet, editor.

Shuy, Roger W., editor.

Series:

Oxford studies in language and law.

Oxford Studies in Language and Law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Language.

Law.

Tiersma, Peter Meijes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Instruction

Contents:

On the origins of legal English / Peter M. Tiersma

Why is legal language so conservative? / Peter M. Tiersma

Writing the law in England / Peter M. Tiersma

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 legal text? / Dieter Stein

Text, tape and pixels in the making of wills / Peter M. Tiersma

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

The language of silence : implication and the role of conversation / Peter M. Tiersma

Symbolic destruction / 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

The language of consent in rape law / Peter M. Tiersma

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

Felicitous consent / Tim Grant and Kerrie Spaul

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

Speaking of consent / Gail Stygall

Dafamatory language and the act of accusing / Peter M. Tiersma

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

Applying Tiersma's defamation theory to defamation cases / Roger W. Shuy

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

Dynamic statutes / Peter M. Tiersma

The textualization of precedent / 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

The language of perjury : speaking falsely by saying nothing / Peter M. Tiersma

"Threats" / 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

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

The history of jury instructions / Peter M. Tiersma

Capital instructions : comprehension as a matter of life or death / 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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-049266-X

0-19-933419-6

OCLC:

913513840