The language of lawyers : a European perspective / edited by Jacqueline Visconti.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Visconti, Jacqueline, editor.

Series:

Foundations in language and law ; volume 11.

Foundations in language and law, 2627-3950 ; volume 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Court proceedings--Europe.

Court proceedings.

Law--Europe--Language.

Law.

Lawyers--Europe--Language.

Lawyers.

Pleading--Europe.

Pleading.

Law--Language.

Lawyers--Language.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2026]

System Details:

text file PDF

Biography/History:

Jacqueline Visconti, University of Genoa, Italy.

Summary:

"Clarity of court proceedings is increasingly considered essential to both the efficiency and the quality of a modern judiciary. One particularly under-researched area is the language of pleadings, i.e., texts written by lawyers representing the parties in court. Building on the results of the AttiChiari project, the first part of the book contains chapters on recent legal reforms and the language of Italian lawyers, while the second part includes chapters on the language of lawyers in Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Romania and the United Kingdom. With contributions from leading experts in the field, the volume combines legal and linguistic expertise in equal measure, as well as a substantial body of practical reflections by civil and criminal lawyers. Having clarity of court proceedings as a unifying thread, the volume focuses on access to justice as a prerequisite for democracy and for a truly inclusive society."-- From De Gruyter Brill.

Contents:

Concision and clarity in the structure of Italian pleadings: a comparative overview in a European perspective / Anna Barbano

The principle of clarity and conciseness of documents following the reform to the Code of Civil Procedure / Federico Ungaretti Dell’Immagine

Between civil trial rules and good writing advice / Ilaria Pagni

Le mot juste: clear language as a “systemic” value, and the role of the lawyer / Serena Dentico, Giorgio Sobrino

In the instant haze: clarity and unclarity in lawyers’ pleadings / Riccardo Gualdo

Old and new rules for legal writing in Italy / Federigo Bambi

Language of the lawyer and language of the judge in court proceedings in Italy / Maria Vittoria Dell’Anna

Lexical variation in lawyers’ pleadings: observations from the AttiChiari corpus / Laura Clemenzi

Writing clear pleadings: the contribution of punctuation / Giulia Lombardi

Tradition and innovation in the language of Italian pleadings: anglicisms and latinisms / Francesca Fusco

New approaches to processing and modeling judicial corpora / Daniele Fusi

Composing pleadings (as in music) / Lelio Della Pietra

Legal writing: expectations, memories and a few things learned / Gaudenzia Brunello

The power of words, the choice of words: inside and outside judicial proceedings / Angelica Scozia

Gender-based violence at trial: a new language for respecting human rights / Sabrina Lucantoni

Gonario Pinna: a lawyer in Sardinia / Guido Melis

The style of barristers’ submissions when defending a civil case in court: an outsider’s view on England and Wales / Silvia Ferreri

Sketches on English and Italian pleadings in civil procedure: language, structure, style / Luca Passanante

Skeleton arguments: use and abuse / John Bowers, Hannah Hinton

Language variation in the written communication of German lawyers / Hannes Kniffka

Written pleadings in German civil trials / Eva Wiesmann

Defence proceedings in France: between tradition and standardization? / Michel Cannarsa

Linguistic and discursive analysis of French legal writings for the defence / Margarete Flöter-Durr, Paulina Nowak-Korcz

From como mejor proceda to the first and second otrosí: the language of defence counsel in Spain / Miguel Ángel Campos-Pardillos

Portuguese defence proceedings and court applications: aiming for clarity and inclusiveness / Pierre Lejeune, Amália Mendes

The language and structure used in the defence statements of Flemish lawyers: an exploratory study / Karl Hendrickx, Henk Pander Maat, Raf Van Ransbeeck

The language of the defence: communication in Finnish courts / Laura Ervo

The language of defence in criminal proceedings: the Polish perspective / Barbara Janusz-Pohl

The language of family court petitions and applications in Romania / Sorina Ciobanu.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed on May 11, 2026).

Other Format:

Language of lawyers.

ISBN:

9783111340982

3111340988

9783111341187

3111341186

OCLC:

1536140902

Publisher Number:

CIPO000290082

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license