Law, language and the courtroom : legal linguistics and the discourse of judges / edited by Stanisław Goźdź-Roszkowski and Gianluca Pontrandolfo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goźdź-Roszkowski, Stanisław, editor.

Pontrandolfo, Gianluca, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Law, language and communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Language.

Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

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text file

Biography/History:

Stanisław Gozdz-Roszkowski is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Specialised Languages and Intercultural Communication, University of Lodz (Poland), where he has been teaching various seminars in specialised communication and legal discourse analysis. His research focuses on functional and corpus-based approaches to the study of judicial discourse in US and Polish courts. He has published widely in the area of variation in legal language, legal phraseology and communicating evaluative meanings in judicial opinions. He is now involved in researching legal argumentation in the justification of judicial decisions. Gianluca Pontrandolfo holds a PhD in translation and interpreting studies. He is currently Senior Research Fellow at the University of Trieste (Italy) in the Department of Legal, Language, Interpreting and Translation Studies (IUSLIT), where he lectures on specialised translation from Spanish into Italian. His research interests include corpus linguistics, legal phraseology, legal translation training, Languages for Special Purposes, genre analysis and corpus-assisted critical discourse studies. He has published widely in the area of legal and judicial discourse from a contrastive corpus-based perspective.

Contents:

The judicial Eurolect and EU English : a genre profiling of CJEU judgments / Łucja Biel, Dariusz Koźbiał, Dariusz Müller (University of Warsaw)

Evidentiality in US Supreme Court opinions : focus on passive structures with say and tell / Magdalena Szczyrbak (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)

Standardization in judicial discourse : the case of the evolution of the French arrêts de la Cour de cassation and the use of forms in European procedural law / Margarete Flöter-Durr (Université de Strasbourg) & Paulina Nowak-Korcz (University of Lodz)

The 'consensus' case law of the European Court of Human Rights in light of the Court's legitimacy over time / Anne Lise Kjaer (University of Copenhagen)

Spider Woman beats Hulk : Baroness Hale and the prorogation of Parliament / Ruth Breeze (University of Navarra)

Making a corpus-linguistic U-turn in multilingual adjudication / Martina Bajčić (University of Rijeka)

Evaluative language and strategic manoeuvring in the justification of judicial decisions. The case of teleological-evaluative argumentation / Stanisław Goźdź-Roszkowski (University of Lodz)

"...without proof of negligence or a causative connection..." : on causal argumentation in Supreme Court of Ireland's judgments on data protection / Davide Mazzi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)

A corpus-based comparative analysis of the evaluative lexicon found in judicial decisions on immigration / María José Marín Pérez (University of Murcia)

Pedagogies of context : language ideology and expression rights at the European Court of Human Rights / Jessica Greenberg (University of Illinois)

Free speech, artistic expression and blasphemy laws within the ECHR margin of appreciation / Joanna Kulesza (University of Lodz)

The United States Supreme Court's Language of Racism / Kathryn Stanchi (UNLV, William S. Boyd School of Law)

Do the words of the American Constitution still matter? The Question of "the meaning of meaning", in current judicial argumentation / Anna Tomza-Tulejska & James Patrick Higgins (University of Lodz)

How interdisciplinarity could improve the scientificvalue of legal studies of international judicial decisions / Marek Jan Wasiński (University of Lodz)

Conveying the right message : principles and problems of multilingual communication at the European Court of Human Rights / James Brannan (Senior Translator, European Court of Human Rights)

Concision and Clarity in Italian Court Proceedings / Antonio Mura (Prosecutor General at the Rome Court of Appeal) and Jacqueline Visconti (University of Genoa/Honorary Research Fellow at Birmingham University).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Print version: Law, language and the courtroom

ISBN:

9781003153771

1003153771

9781000483819

1000483819

9781000483864

100048386X

Publisher Number:

40030883970

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