Formal linguistics and law
By: edited by Günther Grewendorf, Monika Rathert.
Contributors: Grewendorf, Günther.; Rathert, Monika, 1972-
Series: Trends in linguistics : studies and monographs -- 212; Trends in linguistics -- 212.
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter; Walter de Gruyter Inc.; De Gruyter Mouton
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 435
ISBN-13: 9783110218381
Subjects: Law -- Language; Law -- Interpretation and construction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Language and law : new applications of formal linguistics / Günther Grewendorf and Monika Rathert; title: Law matters, syntax matters and semantics matters / Carl Vogel; title: Improving the comprehensibility of German court decisions / Stella Neumann; title: Understanding a Riester-pension : a reply to Becker and Klein (2008) / Monika Rathert; title: Forensic phonetics and the influence of speaking style on global measures of fundamental frequency / Michael Jessen; title: Phonetic cues to speaker age : a longitudinal study / Angelika Braun and Stefan Friebis; title: Does speech reveal one's age? : on the use of gerontolinguistic topics for forensic authorship analysis / Jan Seifert; title: Definition extraction from court decisions using computational linguistic technology / Stephan Walter; title: Making sense of legal texts / Emile de Maat, Radboud Winkels, and Tom van Engers; title: Interfacing between different legal systems using the examples of N-Lex and EUR-Lex / Doris Liebwald; title: The LOIS project and beyond / Erich Schweighofer; title: Multilingualism in the European Union : status quo and perspectives : the reference language model / Karin Luttermann; title: Drafting and interpretation of EU law; title: paradoxes of legal multilingualism / Agnieszka Doczekalska; title: Multilingual law drafting in Switzerland / Andreas Lötscher; title: A modular approach to legal drafting and translation / Jacqueline Visconti.