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Other Authors: Freeman, Michael D. A, Smith, Fiona
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013
Edition:First edition
Series:Current legal issues ; 2011, vol. 15
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Table of Contents:
  • Law and language : an introduction / Michael Freeman and Fiona Smith
  • Legal texts and canons of construction : a view from current pragmatic theory / Robyn Carston
  • Linguistic meaning and legal truth / Brian H. Bix
  • Truth in law / Andrei Marmor
  • Language, truth, and law / Andrew Halpin
  • Claims of legal authorities and "expression of intention " : the limits of philosophy of language / Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco
  • Legal pluralism : a systems theory approach to language, translation, and communication / Richard Nobles and David Schiff
  • Frame semantics and the "internal point of view" / Steven L. Winter
  • Hart as contextualist? Theories of interpretation in language and the law / Ross Charnock
  • On goodness and genre : talking about virtue in law and literature / Jan-Melissa Schramm
  • The Grin's cat : language, law, and literature / Sebastian McEvoy
  • Reading and writing the law : Macaulay in India / Michael Hancher
  • "Where be his quiddities now"? Law and language in Hamlet / Eric Heinze
  • Stories in law : providing space for "oppositionists"? / Steven Cammiss
  • Literal interpretation and English precedent in Joe Ma's Lawyer, lawyer / Marco Wan
  • Toward a cognitive science of legal interpretation / Benjamin Shaer
  • Do you kick a dog when it's down? Considering the use of children's video-recorded testimonies in court / June Luchjenbroers and Michelle Aldridge-Waddon
  • The power of naming : surnames, children, and spouses / Jonathan Herring
  • The role of language in legal contexts : a forensic cross-linguistic viewpoint / Luna Filipović
  • Vagueness and power delegation in law : a rely to Sorensen / Hrafn Asgeirsson
  • Plato's fertility clinic : status and identity rhetoric in parenthood disputes / David Gurnham
  • Silence, speech, and the paradox of the right to remain silent in American police investigation / Janet Ainsworth
  • The consumption of legal language : consuming the law / Anthony Amatrudo
  • (Language + Law)² = ? / Catrin Fflur Huws
  • MMORPGing, law, and lingo / Kim Barker
  • Constructing commercial contracts : no need for violence / Paul S. Davies
  • Why are non-US contracts written in US legalese? Some preliminary thoughts and a research agenda / Claire A. Hill
  • The role of parliamentary rhetoric in facilitating the racial effect of stop and search powers in Section 44 of the Terrorism Act of 2000 / Rachel Herron
  • Precedent at the Court of Justice of the European Union : the linguistic aspect / Karen McAuliffe
  • Law and language(s) at the heart of the European Project : educating different kinds of lawyers / Bénédicte Sage-Fuller, Ferdinand Prinz zur Lippe, and Seán Ó Conaill
  • Foreign law in translation : if truth be told ... / Simone Glanert and Pierre Legrand
  • First-person perspectives in legal decisions / Lorenz Kaehler
  • Deaf people a the Old Bailey from the 18th century onwards / Bencie Woll and Christopher Stone
  • Role of the root : proto-Indo-European domination of legal language / Gary Watt
  • Necessary violence? Inscribing the subject of law / Penelope Pether