Introduction / Jacqueline Visconti -- Legal drafting / Christopher Williams -- The interpretation of laws / Lawrence M. Solan -- Language rights / Janny HC Leung -- Language planning and legal systems / Richard Powell -- Semantic processing of legal texts / Tommaso Agnoloni and Giulia Venturi -- Implicit legal norms / Barbara Pasa and Lucia Morra -- Authorship attribution analysis / Sabine Ehrhardt -- Topic management in police-suspect interviewing / Georgina Heydon -- Forensic voice comparison / Michael Jessen -- Narrative practices and voice in court / Chris Heffer -- Linguistic analysis in trade mark law : current approaches and new challenges / Alan Durant and Jennifer Davis -- Defamation, language and linguistics / Roger W. Shuy -- Future directions in law and popular culture : a British perspective / Peter Robson -- Multilingual interpretation of European Union law / Silvia Ferreri -- Contemporary Chinese law : a linguistic perspective / Marina Timoteo -- Unity and varieties of Arabic as a legal language : practices of interpretation and translation / Roberta Aluffi -- Law, language and communication in the Indian context / Domenico Francavilla -- The many languages of Japanese legal language / Andrea Ortolani.
Summary:
"This volume explores communication and its implications on interpretation, vagueness, multilingualism, and multiculturalism. It investigates cross-cultural perspectives with original methods, models, and arguments emphasizing national, EU, and international perspectives. Both traditional fields of investigations along with an emerging new field (Legal Visual Studies) are discussed. Communication addresses the necessity of an ongoing interaction between jurilinguists and legal professionals. This interaction requires persuasive, convincing, and acceptable reasons in justifying transparency, visual analyses, and dialogue with the relevant audience. The book is divided into five complementary sections: Professional Legal Communication; Legal Language in a Multilingual and Multicultural Context; Legal Communication in the Courtroom; Laws on Language and Language Rights; and Visualizing Legal Communication. The book shows the diversity in the understanding and practicing of legal communication and paves the way to an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural operation in our common understanding of legal communication. This book is suitable for advanced students in Linguistics and Law, and for academics and researchers working in the field of Language and Law and jurilinguists."-- Provided by publisher.
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