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Klappentext Law and Language, the latest volume in the Current Legal Issues series, contains a broad range of essays by scholars interested in the interactions between law and language. This volume examines the themes of truth in language and the law, and the role of language in different areas of law, including contract and criminal law. Zusammenfassung Law and Language, the latest volume in the Current Legal Issues series, contains a broad range of essays by scholars interested in the interactions between law and language. This volume examines the themes of truth in language and the law, and the role of language in different areas of law, including contract and criminal law. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Michael Freeman and Fiona Smith: Introduction: Law and Language 2: Robyn Carston: Legal Texts and Canons of Construction: A View from Current Pragmatic Theory 3: Brian H. Bix: Linguistic Meaning and Legal Truth 4: Andrei Marmor: Truth in Law 5: Andrew Halpin: Language, Truth, and Law 6: Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco: Claims of Legal Authorities and 'Expressions of Intention': The Limits of Philosophy of Language 7: Richard Nobles and David Schiff: Legal Pluralism: A Systems Theory Approach to Language, Translation, and Communication 8: Steven L. Winter: Frame Semantics and the 'Internal Point of View' 9: Ross Charnock: Hart as Contextualist? Theories of Interpretation in Language and the Law 10: Jan-Melissa Schramm: On Goodness and Genre: Talking about Virtue in Law and Literature 11: Sebastian McEvoy: The Grin's Cat: Language, Law, and Literature 12: Michael Hancher: Reading and Writing the Law: Macaulay in India 13: Eric Heinze: 'Where be his quiddities now?' Law and Language in Hamlet 14: Steven Cammiss: Stories in Law: Providing Space for 'Oppositionists'? 15: Marco Wan: Literal Interpretation and English Precedent in Joe Ma's Lawyer, Lawyer 16: Benjamin Shaer: Toward a Cognitive Science of Legal Interpretation 17: June Luchjenbroers and Michelle Aldridge-Waddon: Do You Kick a Dog When It's Down? Considering the Use of Children's Video-taped Testimonies in Court 18: Jonathan Herring: The Power of Naming: Surnames, Children, and Spouses 19: Luna Filipovic: The Role of Language in Legal Contexts: A Forensic Cross-linguistic Viewpoint 20: Hrafn Asgeirsson: Vagueness and Power-Delegation in Law: A Reply to Sorensen 21: David Gurnham: Plato's Fertility Clinic: Status and Identity Rhetoric in Parenthood Disputes 22: Janet Ainsworth: Silence, Speech, and the Paradox of the Right to Remain Silent in American Police Interrogation 23: Anthony Amatrudo: The Consumption of Legal Language: Consuming the Law 24: Catrin Fflur Huws: (Language + Law)2 = ? 25: Kim Barker: MMORPGing, Law, and Lingo 26: Paul S. Davies: Construing Commercial Contracts: No Need for Violence 27: Claire A. Hill: Why Are Non-US Contracts Written in US Legalese? Some Preliminary Thoughts, and a Research Agenda 28: Rachel Herron: The Role of Parliamentary Rhetoric in Facilitating the Racial Effect of the Section 44 Terrorism Act 2000 Stop and Search Powers 29: Karen McAuliffe: Precedent at the Court of Justice of the European Union: the Linguistic Aspect 30: Bénédicte Sage-Fuller, Ferdinand Prinz zur Lippe, and Seán Ó Conaill: Law and Language(s) at the Heart of the European Project: Educating Different Kinds of Lawyers 31: Simone Glanert and Pierre Legrand: Foreign Law in Translation: If Truth Be Told... 32: Lorenz Kähler: First-person Perspectives in Legal Decisions 33: Bencie Woll and Christopher Stone: Deaf People at the Old Bailey from the 18th Century Onwards 34: Gary Watt: Rule of the Root: Proto-Indo-European Domination of Legal Language 35: Penelope Pether: Necessary Violence?: Inscribing the Subject of Law ...
