Fiction and the Languages of Law - Understanding Contemporary Legal Discourse

List of contents

1: Three Ways of Reading a Term; 2: Fear of Fiction; 3: Real People, Fictional Characters, Legal Phantoms; 4: Big Personalities; 5: Virtual Realities; 6: Reading the Layers of Law;

About the author

Dr Karen Petroski, St Louis University School of Law, USA, has been teaching law since 2008 and is trained in both literary analysis and law. She has published several articles and book chapters on legal fictions and the relationship between fictional and legal discourse, including chapters in Legal Fictions in Theory and Practice (ed. Maksymilian Del Mar & William Twining, Springer, 2015) and The Nature of Legal Interpretation: What Jurists Can Learn About Legal Interpretation from Linguistics and Philosophy (ed. Brian Slocum, Univ. of Chicago Press, 2017).

Summary

Through an examination of the U.S. Supreme Court’s written output during a recent landmark term, this book exposes many of the parallels between these two special kinds of language use.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Petroski
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9780815350118
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-5011-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Law, Language and Communication; Law, Language and Communication
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; USA, Discourse Analysis, English, LAW / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, LAW / Legal Education, LAW / Court Records, LAW / Legal Writing, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general, Jurisprudence & general issues, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Jurisprudence and general issues