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The English Language on Trial : Witnessing Disputed Meanings in American Courts.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hawkins, John A.
- Series:
- Studies in English Language Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Forensic linguistics--United States.
- Forensic linguistics.
- Evidence, Expert--United States.
- Evidence, Expert.
- Statutes--Interpretation and construction--United States.
- Statutes.
- Trademarks--United States.
- Trademarks.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- "Drawing on cases in American courts in which the author served as an expert, this book gives a linguistic analysis of disputed meanings in English at the basis of lawsuits. It is essential reading for researchers and students of semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, corpus linguistics, and language and law"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Creating meanings in everyday language use
- Chapter 2 Disputes over individual words
- Chapter 3 Disputes over word combinations
- Chapter 4 Disputes over whole clauses
- Chapter 5 Disputes over inferences
- Chapter 6 Disputes over reference and unique identification
- Chapter 7 Disputes over spelling and punctuation
- Chapter 8 Conclusions
- Further readings in language and law
- Appendix: Cases discussed in this book.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-009-68280-6
- 1-009-68279-2
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