book notice: Language, Culture and the Law: Bhatia, Candlin, Evangelisti Allori (Eds)

[Harold Schiffman]

Language, Culture and the Law: Bhatia, Candlin, Evangelisti Allori (Eds)


Title: Language, Culture and the Law
Subtitle: The Formulation of Legal Concepts across Systems and Cultures
Published: 2008
Publisher: Peter Lang AG
                http://www.peterlang.com

Book URL: http://www.peterlang.com/Index.cfm?vLang=D&vSiteID=4&vSiteName=BookDetail%2Ecfm&VID=11470

Editor: Vijay K. Bhatia
Editor: Christopher N. Candlin
Editor: Paola Evangelisti Allori
Abstract:

The volume presents a set of invited papers based on analyses of legal
discourse drawn from a number of international contexts where often the
English language and legal culture has had to adjust to legal concepts very
different from those of the English law system. Many of the papers were
inspired by two major projects on legal language and
inter-multiculturality: Generic Integrity in Legislative Discourse in
Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts based in Hong Kong and carried out
by an international team and Interculturality in Domain-specific English, a
national project supported by the Italian Ministry for Education and
Research, involving research units from five Italian universities.

Contents:

Vijay Bhatia/Christopher N. Candlin/Paola Evangelisti Allori: Introduction
- Maurizio Gotti: The Formulation of Legal Concepts in Arbitration
Normative Texts in a Multilingual, Multicultural Context - Giuliana
Garzone: International Commercial Arbitration Rules as Translated/Rewritten
Texts: An Intercultural Perspective - Paola Evangelisti Allori: The
Linguistic Formulation of Power: Modality and Power Relations in Two Sets
of Sports-related Arbitration Rules - Michela Menghini: Italian-English
Correspondences in the Juridical Discourse of Sports Arbitration: an
Electronic Glossary - Tarja Salmi-Tolonen: Negotiated Meaning and
International Commercial Law - Martin Solly: 'Uberrima fidei': Language
Choice and Cultural Undertones in the Insurance of International Trade -
Gigliola Sacerdoti Mariani: Linguistic 'Checks and Balances' in the Draft
EU Constitution - Marina Dossena: 'The times they're a-changing': The
Abolition of Feudal Tenure (Scotland) Act 2000 and Linguistic Strategies of
Popularization - Giuditta Caliendo/Marco Venuti: EU Discourse on
Enlargement: The Negotiation of Meaning - Cristina Pennarola: How EU
Secondary Legislation Encodes Humanitarian Aid Policies - Marchilia Volini:
Phrasemes in EU Framework Decisions - Paola Catenaccio: Implementing
Council Directive 1993/13/EEU on Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts in
Great Britain: A Case for Intra-linguistic Translation? - Girolamo Tessuto:
Legal Concepts and Terminography: Analysis and Application - Marta Chromá:
Semantic and Legal Interpretation: Two Approaches to Legal Translation -
Stefano Marrone: System-texts and Cross-system's Translation.

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                            Pragmatics
                            Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Written In: English (eng )

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