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