The Oxford handbook of language and law
By: edited by Peter M. Tiersma and Lawrence M. Solan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 642
ISBN-13: 9780199572120
Subjects: Law; Handbooks, manuals; Language
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [573]-628) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Lawrence M. Solan and Peter M. Tiersma; title: Pt. I. Legal language; title: A history of the languages of law / Peter M. Tiersma; title: Legal vocabulary / Heikki E. S. Mattla; title: The grammar and structure of legal texts / Risto Hiltunen; title: Text and genre / Maurizio Gotti; title: The plain language movement / Mark Adler; title: Pt. II. The interpretation of legal texts; title: Linguistic issues in statutory interpretation / Lawrence M. Solan; title: Contract formation as a speech act / Sanford Schange; title: Constitutional interpretation / Robert W. Bennett; title: Ambiguity and vagueness in legal interpretation / Ralf Poscher; title: Legal interpretation and the philosophy of language / Brian H. Bix; title: Pt. III. Multilingualism and translation; title: Bilingual interpretation rules as a component of language rights in Canada / Michel Bastarache; title: Word meaning and the problem of a globalized legal order / Jan Engberg; title: Challenges to the legal translator / Susan Sarcevic; title: Language and law in the European Union : the multilingual jurisprudence of the ECJ / Karen McAuliffe; title: FIfty years of multilingual interpretation in the European Union / Cornelis J. W. Baaij.; title: Pt. IV. Language rights; title: Linguistic human rights / Tove Skutnabb-Kangas; title: Language policy in the United States / Peter M. Tiersma; title: Legal rights of linguistic minorities in the European Union / Durk Gorter and Jasone Cenoz; title: Investigating the language situation in Africa / Tunde Olusola Opeibi; title: Pt. V. Language and criminal law; title: The meaning of silence in the right to remain silent / Janet Ainsworth; title: Potential impact of juvenile suspects' linguistic abilities on Miranda understanding and appreciation / Naomi E. S. Goldstein ... [et al.]; title: The caution in England and Wales / Frances Rock; title: The language of consent in police encounters / Janice Nadler and J. D. Trout; title: The language of crime / Peter M. Tiersma and Lawrence M. Solan; title: Interrogation throught pragmatic implication : sticking to the letter of the law while violating its intent / Deborah Davis and Richard A. Leo; title: Pt. VI. Courtroom discourse; title: Discourse in the US courtroom / Gail Stygall; title: Courtroom discourse in Japan's new judicial order / Mami Hiraike Okawara; title: Courtroom discourse in China / Meizhen Liao; title: The language of criminal trials in an inquisitorial system : the case of the Netherlands / Martha L. Komter and Marijke Malsch; title: Linguistic issues in courtroom interpretation / Susan Berk-Seligson; title: Instructing the jury / Nancy S. Marder.; title: Pt. VII. Intellectual property; title: Using linguistics in trademark cases / Roger W. Shuy; title: Language and copyright / Ronald R. Butters; title: The psycholinguistic basis of distinctiveness in tradmark law / Syugo Hotta and Masahiro Fujita; title: Pt. VIII. Identification of authorship and deception; title: Author identification in the forensic setting  / Carole E. Chaski; title: Corpus linguistics in authorship identification / Krzysztof Kredens and Malcolm Coulthard; title: Detecting plagiarism / David Woolls; title: Pt. IX. Speaker indentification; title: Language analysis for determination of origin : objective evidence for refugee status determination / Peter L. Patrick; title: Factors affecting lay persons' identification of speakers / A. Daniel Yarmey; title: Forensic speaker comparison : a linguistic-acoustic perspective / Paul Foulkes and Peter French.