TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tiersma,Peter Meijes
AU  - Solan,Lawrence
TI  - The Oxford handbook of language and law
SN  - 9780199572120 (hbk. : alk. paper)
U1  - 340.14 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Law
KW  - Language
KW  - Handbooks, manuals, etc
N1  - Includes:  Bibliographical references (p. 573-628) 
                 Index (629-642); 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
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