Transparency, power, and control
Subtitle: perspectives on legal communication
By: by Vijay K. Bhatia ... [et al.].
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9781409432845; 9781409432852
Subjects: Semantics (Law)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Transparency, power, and control in legal communication / Vijay K. Bhatia ... [et al.]; title: Common words, uncommon meanings : statutory interpretation in China and Australia / Deborah Cao; title: On legal conditionals / Celina Frade; title: The directive and persuasive style of a legislative speech act and the transformations thereof / Irena Szezepankowska; title: Zorkin v. Morschakova : legal dispute in rhetorical terms / Anita Soboleva; title: A dialogical and polyphonic approach to contract theory / André Bélanger and Andy van Drom; title: What EU legislative texts reveal about power, control and transparency / Colin Robertson; title: Toward an objective means of measuring governmental legitimacy / Douglas Bellis; title: Battle of the sexters : teens celling sex in a world wide web of conflicting laws, values and social norms / Michelle Wirth; title: Visualizing the terrorist risk in President Bush's War on Terror and Peter Jackson's The two towers / Anita Lam; title: Hearing and belonging : on sounds, faith, and laws / Leone Massimo; title: Terror australis / Maria Giannocopoulos; title: "The unbearable whiteness of Beckham" : semiotics and political recoding of the contemporary celebrity / David Tan; title: Law and semiotics : Warhol and images of infamy / Oliver Watts.