Language In The Legal Process

Author : J. Cotterill
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002-10-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230522770

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Language in the Legal Process by J. Cotterill Pdf

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 : Diana Eades
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847696779

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Sociolinguistics and the Legal Process by Diana Eades Pdf

Sociolinguistics and the Legal Process is an introduction to language, law and society for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students. Its central focus is the exploration of what sociolinguistic research can tell us about how language works and doesn’t work in the legal process. Written for readers who may not have prior knowledge of sociolinguistics or the law, the book has an accessible style combined with discussion questions and exercises as well as topics for assignments, term papers, theses and dissertations. A wide range of legal contexts are investigated, including courtroom hearings, police interviews, lawyer interviews as well as small claims courts, mediation, youth justice conferencing and indigenous courts. The final chapter looks at how sociolinguists can contribute to the legal process: as expert witnesses, through legal education, and through investigating the role of language in the perpetuation of inequality in and through the legal process.

Author : Judith N. Levi,Anne Graffam Walker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781489937193

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Language in the Judicial Process by Judith N. Levi,Anne Graffam Walker Pdf

Legal realism is a powerful jurisprudential tradition which urges attention to sodal conditions and predicts their influence in the legal process. The rela tively recent "sodal sdence in the law" phenomenon, in which sodal research is increasingly relied on to dedde court cases is a direct result of realistic jurisprudence, which accords much significance in law to empirical reports about sodal behavior. The empirical research used by courts has not, how ever, commonly dealt with language as an influential variable. This volume of essays, coedited by Judith N. Levi and Anne Graffam Walker, will likely change that situation. Language in the Judicial Process is a superb collection of original work which fits weIl into the realist tradition, and by focusing on language as a key variable, it establishes a new and provocative perspective on the legal process. The perspective it offers, and the data it presents, make this volume a valuable source of information both for judges and lawyers, who may be chiefly concemed with practice, and for legal scholars and sodal sdentists who do basic research about law.

Author : William M. O'Barr
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781483297712

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Linguistic Evidence by William M. O'Barr Pdf

With the permission of a North Carolina court, more than 150 hours of courtroom speech were recorded for this study. These tapes provided a rich archive for a variety of different types of inquiry, including the ethnography of courtroom speech and social psychological experiments focused on effects of different modes of presenting information in courts of law. Four sets of linguistic variables and related experimental studies have constituted a major portion of the research: (1) "powerful" versus "powerless" speech; (2) hypercorrect versus formal speech; (3) narrative versus fragmented testimony, and (4) simultaneous speech by witnesses and lawyers. All four sets of studies focus on the central question of importance of form over content of testimony.

Author : F. Olsen,R. Lorz,D. Stein
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230233744

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Translation Issues in Language and Law by F. Olsen,R. Lorz,D. Stein Pdf

With contributions from world-class specialists this first book-length work looks at translation issues in forensic linguistics, where accuracy and cultural understandings play a prominent part in the legal process.

Author : Joan Colin,Ruth Morris
Publisher : Waterside Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1996-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781906534240

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Interpreters and the Legal Process by Joan Colin,Ruth Morris Pdf

Deals with spoken language and sign language. It concentrates on England and Wales but several sections are of international import. The book should be of use to interpreters who need to know about interpreting-related issues within the legal system but also encompasses a wider audience.

Author : Joan Colin,Ruth Morris
Publisher : Waterside Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781872870281

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Interpreters and the Legal Process by Joan Colin,Ruth Morris Pdf

The set text for interpreters looking to work in the courts - at many training institutions. An expert treatment that has relevance anywhere in the world.

Author : Susan Ehrlich,Diana Eades,Janet Ainsworth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190613891

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Discursive Constructions of Consent in the Legal Process by Susan Ehrlich,Diana Eades,Janet Ainsworth Pdf

As a linguistically-grounded, critical examination of consent, this volume views consent not as an individual mental state or act but as a process that is interactionally-and discursively-situated. It highlights the ways in which legal consent is often fictional (at best) due to the impoverished view of meaning and the linguistic ideologies that typically inform interpretations and representations in the legal system. The authors are experts in linguistics and law, who use diverse theoretical and analytical approaches to examine the complex ways in which language is used to seek, negotiate, give, or withhold consent in a range of legal contexts. Authors draw on case studies, or larger research corpora or a wider sociolegal approach, in investigations of: police-citizen interactions in the street, police interviews with suspects, police call handlers, rape and abduction trials, interactions with lay litigants in a multilingual small claims court, a restorative justice sentencing scheme for young offenders, biomedical research, and legal disputes over contracts.

Author : Monwabisi K. Ralarala,Russell H. Kaschula,Georgina Heydon
Publisher : African Sun Media
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781991201836

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Language and the Law by Monwabisi K. Ralarala,Russell H. Kaschula,Georgina Heydon Pdf

Language and the Law: Global Perspectives in Forensic Linguistics from Africa and beyond is the third volume in a series of books designed to contribute and respond to growing interest in forensic linguistics or language and the law on the African continent. Drawing mostly on contexts where traditional African laws and Western laws are practised side-by-side, and where there are discontinuities between local knowledge systems, belief systems and language practices on the one hand, and official languages of law discourse, conceptualisation and jurisprudence documentation on the other, the chapters in this volume problematise, among other issues, the mediation practices (or lack thereof) of language and legal processes, discourse strategies and complexities in (mis)interpretations in second language court contexts and the miscarriage of justice that these may entail.

Author : Sanford Schane
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441114624

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Language and the Law by Sanford Schane Pdf

This comprehensive introduction to Language and the Law looks at the common areas of interaction between linguistics and the legal process. Each chapter presents a language issue or problem relevant to the law. This is then examined using excerpts from cases where judges in their decisions have had to confront that particular issue. Professor Schane considers each issue both from the legal point of view and from a linguistic point of view, to show how each are relevant to each other. Issues covered include: * Ambiguity * Vagueness * Metaphor * Legal fiction * Presuppositions * Leading questions * Legal hearsay The book requires no previous legal or linguistic background, and all concepts and notions from the two fields are explained in a non-technical manner. This fascinating introduction to Language and the Law will be of interest to students and academics encountering this area for the first time. Student friendly features include: exercises, suggestions for further reading, glossary and excerpts from relevant cases.

Author : Lawrence M. Solan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780226767895

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The Language of Judges by Lawrence M. Solan Pdf

Since many legal disputes are battles over the meaning of a statute, contract, testimony, or the Constitution, judges must interpret language in order to decide why one proposed meaning overrides another. And in making their decisions about meaning appear authoritative and fair, judges often write about the nature of linguistic interpretation. In the first book to examine the linguistic analysis of law, Lawrence M. Solan shows that judges sometimes inaccurately portray the way we use language, creating inconsistencies in their decisions and threatening the fairness of the judicial system. Solan uses a wealth of examples to illustrate the way linguistics enters the process of judicial decision making: a death penalty case that the Supreme Court decided by analyzing the use of adjectives in a jury instruction; criminal cases whose outcomes depend on the Supreme Court's analysis of the relationship between adverbs and prepositional phrases; and cases focused on the meaning of certain words in the Constitution. Solan finds that judges often describe our use of language poorly because there is no clear relationship between the principles of linguistics and the jurisprudential goals that the judge wishes to promote. A major contribution to the growing interdisciplinary scholarship on law and its social and cultural context, Solan's lucid, engaging book is equally accessible to linguists, lawyers, philosophers, anthropologists, literary theorists, and political scientists.

Author : John M. Conley,William M. O'Barr,Robin Conley Riner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780226484532

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Just Words by John M. Conley,William M. O'Barr,Robin Conley Riner Pdf

Is it “just words” when a lawyer cross-examines a rape victim in the hopes of getting her to admit an interest in her attacker? Is it “just words” when the Supreme Court hands down a decision or when business people draw up a contract? In tackling the question of how an abstract entity exerts concrete power, Just Words focuses on what has become the central issue in law and language research: what language reveals about the nature of legal power. John M. Conley, William M. O'Barr, and Robin Conley Riner show how the microdynamics of the legal process and the largest questions of justice can be fruitfully explored through the field of linguistics. Each chapter covers a language-based approach to a different area of the law, from the cross-examinations of victims and witnesses to the inequities of divorce mediation. Combining analysis of common legal events with a broad range of scholarship on language and law, Just Words seeks the reality of power in the everyday practice and application of the law. As the only study of its type, the book is the definitive treatment of the topic and will be welcomed by students and specialists alike. This third edition brings this essential text up to date with new chapters on nonverbal, or “multimodal,” communication in legal settings and law, language, and race.

Author : Anne Lise Kjær,Joanna Lam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : International law
ISBN : 0190855231

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Language and Legal Interpretation in International Law by Anne Lise Kjær,Joanna Lam Pdf

"The purpose of this book is to cast light on the workings of language in international legal interpretation in the context of contemporary processes of globalisation. We take an explicit interdisciplinary perspective, which includes both legal theories of interpretation and linguistic theories of meaning, and both legal philosophy and the philosophy of language. The book treats the subject as it appears within and across different legal fields - international economic law, human rights law and international criminal law, EU law, and international arbitration. It also includes more general perspectives on international legal interpretation, among them comparative law, multilingualism and legal translation"--

Author : Prof. Dr. K. L. Bhatia
Publisher : Universal Law Publishing
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8175348941

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Textbook on Legal Language and Legal Writing by Prof. Dr. K. L. Bhatia Pdf

Author : Cheryl Stephens
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780557014507

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Plain Language Legal Writing by Cheryl Stephens Pdf

A complete guide to clean, precise and understandable legal writing So many books give you advice that turns out to be hollow: "know your audience," "structure your writing." The real strength in Plain Language Legal Writing is how, throughout, Stephens provides clear instructions on how to accomplish what she's recommending. Instead of just telling you to plan what you're going to write, she walks you step-by-step through the planning. Instead of telling you to consider your audience before writing, she describes in detail the sorts of audiences a legal document might have (more than you'd expect!) and how to best meet their needs. Plain Language Legal Writing will help you produce documents that people are willing to read and able to understand. More: PlainLanguageLegalWriting.comOther versions: e-book