The Context And Media Of Legal Discourse

Author : Girolamo Tessuto,Vijay K. Bhatia,Ruth Breeze,Birte Bös,Martin Solly
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527547476

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The Context and Media of Legal Discourse by Girolamo Tessuto,Vijay K. Bhatia,Ruth Breeze,Birte Bös,Martin Solly Pdf

This volume provides new insights into the diverse and complex contexts of legal discourse and activity performed across a variety of socially and culturally informed digital media transformations. It addresses topical issues of legal discourse performed by Web-mediated technologies and (social) media usage in professional and institutional contexts of communication. Its analyses rely on specific perspectives, varied applications, and different methodological procedures, providing a multifaceted overview of ongoing research and knowledge in the field.

Author : Peter Goodrich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015013278000

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Legal Discourse by Peter Goodrich Pdf

"Lawyers and the law have long been the object of popular criticism and satire for the obscurity and incomprehensibility of their language. Legal Discourse provides a novel historical and systematic account of the language of the legal institution together with a sustained criticism of legal exegesis and `legalese' more generally. In the first part of the work the doctrinal history of the legal discipline and its concepts of language, text and sign are examined and assessed. In the second part the contemporary disciples of linguistics, discourse analysis and communication studies are brought to bear upon the task of constructing a theory of legal discourse as a linguistics of legal power" -- Backcover.

Author : Vijay Bhatia,Girolamo Tessuto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-04
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781000166354

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Social Media in Legal Practice by Vijay Bhatia,Girolamo Tessuto Pdf

There are multiple aspects of electronically-mediated communication that influence and have strong implications for legal practice. This volume focuses on three major aspects of mediated communication through social media. Part I examines social media and the legal community. It explores how this has influenced professional legal discourse and practice, contributing to the popularity of internet-based legal research, counselling and assistance through online services offering explanations of law, preparing documents, providing evidence, and even encouraging electronically mediated alternative dispute resolution. Part II looks at the use of social media for client empowerment. It examines how it has taken legal practice from a formal and distinct business to one that is publicly informative and accessible. Part III discusses the way forward, exploring the opportunities and challenges. Based on cases from legal practice in diverse jurisdictions, the book highlights key issues as well as implications for legal practitioners on the one hand, and clients on the other. The book will be a valuable reference for international scholars in law and other socio-legal studies, discourse analysis, and practitioners in legal and alternative dispute resolution contexts.

Author : John M. Conley,William M. O'Barr
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1990-05-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780226114910

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Rules Versus Relationships by John M. Conley,William M. O'Barr Pdf

In Rules versus Relationships, John M. Conley and William M. O'Barr examine the experiences of litigants seeking redress of everyday difficulties through the small claims courts of the American legal system. The authors find two major and contrasting ways in which litigants formulate and express their problems in terms of specific rule violations and seek concrete legal remedies that would mend soured relationships and respond to their personal and social needs.

Author : Vijay K. Bhatia,Christopher N. Candlin,Jan Engberg
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789622098510

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Legal Discourse across Cultures and Systems by Vijay K. Bhatia,Christopher N. Candlin,Jan Engberg Pdf

What exactly is legal about legal language? What happens to legal language when it is used across linguistic, national, socio-political, cultural, and legal systems? In what way is generic integrity of legal documents maintained in multilingual and multicultural legal contexts? What happens when the same rule of law is applied across legal systems? By bringing together scholars and practitioners from more than ten countries, representing various jurisdictions, languages, and socio-political backgrounds, this book addresses these key issues arising from the differences in legal or sociocultural systems. The discussions are based not only on the analysis of the legal texts alone, but also on the factors shaping such constructions and interpretations. Given the increasing international need for accurate and authoritative translation and use of legal documents, this important volume has considerable contemporary relevance in a globalized economy. It will appeal to discourse analysts, commercial consultants, legal trainers, translators, and applied researchers in professional communication, especially in the field of legal writing and languages for specific purposes.

Author : Jan M. Broekman,Frank Fleerackers
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : LAW
ISBN : 9781788110204

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Legal Conversation as Signifier by Jan M. Broekman,Frank Fleerackers Pdf

Conversation and argument concerning laws and legal situations take place throughout society and at all levels, yet the language of these conversations differs greatly from that of the courtroom. This insightful book considers the gap between everyday discussion about law and the artificial, technical language developed by lawyers, judges and other legal specialists. In doing so, it explores the intriguing possibilities for future synthesis, a problem often neglected by legal theory.

Author : Gregor Clunie,Haris Psarras
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317018612

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The Public in Law by Gregor Clunie,Haris Psarras Pdf

Bringing together established academics and new researchers, the chapters in this collection interrogate the operation of 'the public' in a range of different legal, illegal and alegal spaces. The key question which frames the contributions is whether and in what manner 'the public' operates as an interface between law and society, allowing the interests and opinions of the population at large to be represented and reflected in legal discourse, such that collectively generated imperatives may be imposed upon political and economic actors. Multi-disciplinary in its approach, the volume reflects an understanding that there is more to the role of 'the public' in relation to law than the conventional demarcation of the field of 'public law' and that this relationship is open to comment from a wide range of actors.

Author : Le Cheng,David Machin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000984880

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The Law and Critical Discourse Studies by Le Cheng,David Machin Pdf

This book provides a range of highly accessible approaches from Discourse Studies for analyzing legal language in legislation, documents, proceedings and in news media reporting. In this insightful volume, scholars from both Law and Linguistics come together to provide a range of approaches from Discourse Studies for analyzing legal language in legislation, documents and proceedings and in news media reporting. The book begins with tackling exactly why such approaches are hugely helpful and valuable for understanding the nature of legal language and how it is used. The chapters, written in an accessible manner, show how discourse analysis can be used to throw light on the ideas and values which can be buried in legal language. The book provides a valuable resource for researchers wishing to carry out their own research or for use in teaching. The Law and Critical Discourse Studies will be a key resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of law, language and linguistics, discourse studies, sociology, and media and cultural studies.This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Critical Discourse Studies.

Author : William E. Conklin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781040025444

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The Phenomenology of Modern Legal Discourse by William E. Conklin Pdf

Originally published in 1998, The Phenomenology of Modern Legal Discourse recovers the suffering which is concealed as lawyers, judges and other legal officials resignify a harm through the special vocabulary and grammar which constitutes legal language. At the moment of re-signification, an untranslatable gap erupts between the knowers’ special language and the embodied meanings of the non-knower. The Phenomenology claims that the gap can be unconcealed if the knowers of the special language reconsider their assumptions about legal meaning, the body and desire. With a broad grasp of diverse problematics from the legal procedures, legal discourses and legal theory of three jurisdictions to exemplify his claims, the author interweaves arguments which draw from Edmund Husserl’s and Maurice Merleau Ponty’s insights about meaning. The author's effort demonstrates how one may unconceal lived laws through a re-reading of the role of the experiential body in legal signification. The author’s effort to retrieve the embodiment of legal meaning de-stabilizes deep assumptions of contemporary lawyers and legal theorists.

Author : Stanislaw Gozdz Roszkowski,Gianluca Pontrandolfo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000483864

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Law, Language and the Courtroom by Stanislaw Gozdz Roszkowski,Gianluca Pontrandolfo Pdf

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.

Author : Peter Goodrich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 134908820X

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Legal Discourse by Peter Goodrich Pdf

Author : John M. Conley,William M. O'Barr,Robin Conley Riner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Karen Petroski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05
Category : Judicial opinions
ISBN : 0367519887

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Fiction and the Languages of Law by Karen Petroski Pdf

Through an examination of the U.S. Supreme Court's written output during a recent landmark term, this book exposes many of the parallels between these two special kinds of language use.

Author : Friedemann Vogel
Publisher : Duncker & Humblot
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783428554232

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Legal Linguistics Beyond Borders: Language and Law in a World of Media, Globalisation and Social Conflicts by Friedemann Vogel Pdf

The world of law has changed in the last decades: it has become more globalized, multilingual and digital. The sections and contributions of this volume continue the interdisciplinary discussion about the challenges of this change for theory and practice of law and for the International Language and Law Association (ILLA) relaunched in 2017. First, the book gives a broad overview to the research field of legal linguistics, its history, research directions and open questions in different parts of the world (United States, Africa, Italy, Spain, Germany, Nordic countries and Russia). The second section consists of contributions about the relation of language, law and justice in a globalized world with a focus on multilingual and supranational law in the EU. The third section focuses on digitalization and mediatization of the law, the last section reports about the discussion at the ILLA relaunch conference in 2017.

Author : Richard Mullender,Matteo Nicolini,Thomas D.C. Bennett,Emilia Mickiewicz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000066838

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Law and Imagination in Troubled Times by Richard Mullender,Matteo Nicolini,Thomas D.C. Bennett,Emilia Mickiewicz Pdf

This collection focuses on how troubled times impact upon the law, the body politic, and the complex interrelationship among them. It centres on how they engage in a dialogue with the imagination and literature, thus triggering an emergent (but thus far underdeveloped) field concerning the ‘legal imagination.’ Legal change necessitates a close examination of the historical, cultural, social, and economic variables that promote and affect such change. This requires us to attend to the variety of non-legal variables that percolate throughout the legal system. The collection probes ‘the transatlantic constitution’ and focuses attention on imagination in a common law context that seems to foster imagination as a cultural capability. The book is divided into four parts. The first part begins with a set of insights into the historical development of legal education in England and concludes with a reflection on the historical transition of England from an absolute monarchy to a republic. The second part of the volume examines the role that imagination plays in the functioning of the courts. The third part focuses on patterns of thought in legal scholarship and detects how legal imagination contributes to the process of producing new legal categories and terminology. The fourth part focuses on patterns of thought in legal scholarship, and looks to the impact of the imagination on legal thinking in the future. The work provides stimulating reading for those working in the areas of legal philosophy, legal history and law and humanities and law and language.