Author : Peter M. Tiersma
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,66 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226803036
This history of legal language slices through the polysyllabic thicket of legalese. The text shows to what extent legalese is simply a product of its past and demonstrates that arcane vocabulary is not an inevitable feature of our legal system.
Author : Prof. Dr. K. L. Bhatia
Publisher : Universal Law Publishing
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 11,24 MB
Release : 2010
Category :
ISBN : 9788175348943
Author : Jay M. Feinman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 31,38 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : 0195181336
1001 Legal Words You Need to Know explains and illuminates the most difficult and arcane vocabulary any American has to deal with-that of the law. This comprehensive but never condescending guide to the language of the American legal system carefully defines and explains every term with a sample sentence, and many entries have supplementary notes. In addition, the book includes a number of quick miniguides to legal troubleshooting that include information on understanding wills, trusts, and inheritance, granting someone the power of attorney, understanding contracts, what to do if you're sued, how to choose a lawyer, exploring law school, and enjoying cop and lawyer dramas. The backmatter contains an extensive list of legal aid organizations and a helpful bibliography of books about the law and lawyers for further reading.
Author : Catherine Mason
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,3 MB
Release : 2011
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780954071462
Author : J. Cotterill
Publisher : Springer
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 32,92 MB
Release : 2002-10-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0230522777
Linguists and lawyers from a range of countries and legal systems explore the language of the law and its participants, beginning with the role of the forensic linguist in legal proceedings, either as expert witness or in legal language reform. Subsequent chapters analyze different aspects of language and interaction in the chain of events from a police emergency call through the police interview context and into the courtroom, as well as appeal court and alternative routes to justice. A broad-based, coherent introduction to the discourse of language and law.
Author : Alfred Phillips
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 35,35 MB
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1135788367
An interesting examination of law as language use or discourse, this study looks at the transformation of ordinary language into a special discourse for the purposes of the legal system. It is widely accepted that legal discourse is obscure, and often the public resent the fact that access to the law of the land is obstructed by the opaqueness of legal language. This book argues that the development and maintenance of law's special language can be justified. The myth that law can be written in either plain' or ordinary' language is exploded, and the linguistic obscurity of law is traced to its necessary complexity. The notion of representation is applied to the relation that exists between legal language and ordinary language.
Author : Joanna Kopaczyk
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,7 MB
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0199945152
The first monograph to examine textual standardization patterns in legal and administrative texts on the basis of lexical bundles, drawing from a comprehensive corpus of medieval and early modern legal texts
Author : Peter M. Tiersma
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,40 MB
Release : 1999-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226803029
This history of legal language slices through the polysyllabic thicket of legalese. The text shows to what extent legalese is simply a product of its past and demonstrates that arcane vocabulary is not an inevitable feature of our legal system.
Author : Plain English Campaign
Publisher : Robson Books Limited
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 14,51 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Law
ISBN :
This book looks at the forces that have made traditional legal language what it is today and suggests some reasoms why the law needs plain English. It also shows why most of its peculiarities are unnecessary.
Author : Stanislaw Gozdz Roszkowski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 47,4 MB
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 100048386X
This book explores the language of judges. It is concerned with understanding how language works in judicial contexts. Using a range of disciplinary and methodological perspectives, it looks in detail at the ways in which judicial discourse is argued, constructed, interpreted and perceived. Focusing on four central themes - constructing judicial discourse and judicial identities, judicial argumentation and evaluative language, judicial interpretation, and clarity in judicial discourse - the book’s ultimate goal is to provide a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of current critical issues of the role of language in judicial settings. Contributors include legal linguists, lawyers, legal scholars, legal practitioners, legal translators and anthropologists, who explore patterns of linguistic organisation and use in judicial institutions and analyse language as an instrument for understanding both the judicial decision-making process and its outcome. The book will be an invaluable resource for scholars in legal linguistics and those specialising in judicial argumentation and reasoning ,and forensic linguists interested in the use of language in judicial settings.
