Formal linguistics and law
By: edited by Günther Grewendorf, Monika Rathert.
Contributors: Grewendorf, Günther.; Rathert, Monika, 1972-
Series: Trends in linguistics : studies and monographs -- v. 212
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
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 / Monika Rathert; title: Forensic phonetics and the influence of speaking style / Michael Jessen; title: Phonetic cues to speaker age : a longitudinal study / Angelika Braun and Stefan Friebis; title: Does speech reveal one's age? / Jan Seifert; title: Definition extraction from court decisions / Stephan Walter; title: Making sense of legal texts / Emile de Maat, Radboud Winkels, and Tom van Engers; title: Interfacing between different legal systems / Doris Liebwald; title: The LOIS project and beyond / Erich Schweighofer; title: Multilingualism in the EU / Karin Luttermann; title: Drafting and interpretation of EU law / Agnieszka Doczekalska; title: Multilingual law drafting in Switzerland / Andreas Lötscher; title: A modular approach to legal drafting and translation / Jacqueline Visconti.