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Author:   Peter M. Tiersma (formerly Professor of Law, Loyola Law School of Los Angeles) ,  Lawrence M. Solan (Professor of Law and Director of the Center for the Study of Law, Language, and Cognition, Brooklyn Law School)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.90cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   1.120kg
ISBN:  

9780198744962

ISBN 10:   019874496
Pages:   664
Publication Date:   27 November 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I: Legal Language 1: Peter Tiersma: A History of the Language of the Law 2: Heikki E. S. Mattila: Legal Vocabulary 3: Risto Hiltunen: The Grammar and Structure of Legal Texts 4: Maurizio Gotti: Text and Genre 5: Mark Adler: The Plain Language Movement Part II: The Interpretation of Legal Texts 6: Lawrence M. Solan: Linguistic Issues in Statutory Interpretation 7: Sanford Schane: Contract Formation as a Speech Act 8: Robert W. Bennett: Constitutional Interpretation 9: Ralf Poscher: Ambiguity and Vagueness in Legal Interpretation 10: Brian H. Bix: Legal Interpretation and the Philosophy of Language Part III: Multilingualism and Translation 11: Michel Bastarache: Bilingual Interpretation Rules as a Component of Language Rights in Canada 12: Jan Engberg: Word Meaning and the Problem of a Globalized Legal Order 13: Susan Sarcevic: Challenges to the Legal Translator 14: Karen McAuliffe: Language and Law in the European Union 15: Cornelis J. W. Baaij: Fifty years of Multilingual Interpretation in the European Union Part IV: Language Rights 16: Tove Skutnabb-Kangas: Linguistic Human Rights 17: Peter Tiersma: Language Policy in the United States 18: Durk Gorter and Jasone Cenoz: Legal Rights of Linguistic Minorities in the EU 19: Tunde Olusola Opeibi: Investigating the Language Situation in Africa Part V: Language and Criminal Law 20: Janet Ainsworth: The Meaning of Silence in The Right to Remain Silent 21: Naomi E. S. Goldstein, Sharon Messenheimer, Christina Riggs L. Romaine, and Heather Zelle: Potential Impact of Juvenile Suspects' Linguistic Abilities on Miranda Understanding and Appreciation 22: Frances Rock: The Caution in England and Wales 23: Janice Nadler and J. D. Trout: The Language of Consent in Police Encounters 24: Peter Tiersma and Lawrence M. Solan: The Language of Crime 25: Deborah Davis and Richard A. Leo: Interrogation Through Pragmatic Implication: Sticking to the Letter of the Law While Violating Its Intent Part VI: Courtroom Discourse 26: Gail Stygall: Discourse in the U.S. Courtroom 27: Mami Hiraike Okawara: Courtroom Discourse in Japan's New Judicial Order 28: Liao Meizhen: Courtroom Discourse in China 29: Martha L. Komter and Marijke Malsch: The Language of Trials in an Inquisitorial Criminal Law System 30: Susan Berk-Saligson: Linguistic Issues in Courtroom Interpretation 31: Nancy S. Marder: Instructing the Jury Part VII: Intellectual Property 32: Roger W. Shuy: Using Linguistics in Trademark Cases 33: Ronald R. Butters: Language and Copyright Law 34: Syugo Hotta and Masahiro Fujita: The Psycholinguistic Basis of Distinctions in Trademark Law Part VIII: Identification of Authorship and Deception 35: Carole E. Chaski: Authorship Identification in the Forensic Setting 36: Krzysztof Kredens and Malcolm Coulthard: Corpus Linguistics in Authorship Identification 37: David Wools: Detecting Plagiarism Part IX: Speaker Identification 38: Peter L. Patrick: Language Analysis for Determination of Origin 39: A. Daniel Yarmey: Factors Affecting Lay Person's Identification of Speakers 40: Paul Foulkes and Peter French: Forensic Speaker Comparison

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This collection is a tremendous accomplishment from two of the leading figures in language and law, and I would highly recommend it. The chapters contain a wealth of invaluable information and ideas, and the book makes an important statement about the need to bridge the gap between legal, linguistic and psychological approaches to language and law. * Chris Heffer, The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law *

This collection is a tremendous accomplishment from two of the leading figures in language and law, and I would highly recommend it. The chapters contain a wealth of invaluable information and ideas, and the book makes an important statement about the need to bridge the gap between legal, linguistic and psychological approaches to language and law. Chris Heffer, The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law

Author Information

Peter M. Tiersma was the Hon. William Matthew Byrne Professor of Law at Loyola Law School of Los Angeles from 2009 until his death in 2014. He had a Ph.D in Linguistics from the University of California, San Diego, and a J. D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Legal Language (1999), and Parchment, Paper, Pixels: Law and the Technologies of Communication (2010). Lawrence M. Solan is the Don Forchelli Professor of Law and the Director of the Center for the Study of Law, Language, and Cognition at Brooklyn Law School. He is on the editorial board of The International Journal of Speech, Language, and the Law and the author of Language and Judges (1993).

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