Human Rights Discourse - Linguistics, Genre Translation At European Court of Human Rights

This book explores the concept of human rights as constructed in language, shedding light on discursive and professional practices at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). It unveils the system of genres at the ECtHR adopting a holistic outlook, which caters for an interdisciplinary readership including language and law professionals.

Table des matières

Preface; Part I: The discourse of human rights across institutions; 1. The discourse of human rights across languages, perspectives and institutions; 2. Constructing human rights discourse: insights from legal terminology and phraseology; 3. The European Court of Human Rights: context, genres and languages; Part II: The European Court of Human Rights: inception of cases and the voices of human rights; 4. Application: the right to individual petition and plain language; 5. Case communication: negotiating supranational terminology through institutional translation; 6. Written observations: the duelling construction of reality; Part III: The language of judges at the ECtHR; 7. Judgment: combining genre, patterning and legal reasoning perspectives; 8. Separate opinions: legal, linguistic and pragmatic insights; Part IV: The life of cases beyond and after the ECtHR; 9: Beyond case-law: disseminating convention-related knowledge

A propos de l'auteur

Jekaterina Nikitina is Associate Professor of English Language and Translation at the University of Milan, Italy.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Jekaterina Nikitina
• Edition: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 11.02.2025
• EAN: 9781032562773
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3256277-3
• Pages: 294
• Thème: Law, Language and Communication
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique générale et comparée; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Droit > Droit civil; Discourse Analysis, LAW / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting, LAW / Communications, LAW / Civil Rights, Translation & interpretation, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Translation and interpretation, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law