31.3584, Books: Meaning and Power in the Language of Law: Leung, Durant (eds.)

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Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2020 22:11:18
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: Meaning and Power in the Language of Law: Leung, Durant (eds.)

 


Title: Meaning and Power in the Language of Law 
Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/discourse-analysis/meaning-and-power-language-law?format=PB 


Editor: Janny H. C. Leung
Editor: Alan Durant

Paperback: ISBN:  9781107533158 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 33.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107533158 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 25.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107533158 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 30.33


Abstract:

Legal practitioners, linguists, anthropologists, philosophers and others have
all explored fundamental challenges presented by language in formulating,
interpreting and applying laws. Building on centuries of interaction between
legal practice and jurisprudence, the modern field of 'law and language', or
'forensic linguistics', brings insights in linguistics and related fields to
bear on topics including legal drafting and translation, statutory
interpretation, expert evidence on language use and dynamics of courtroom
interaction. This volume presents an interlocking series of research studies
engaged with different legal jurisdictions and socio-political contexts as
well as with the more abstract notion of 'law'. Together the chapters, written
by international leaders in their fields, highlight recent directions in
research and investigate in particular how law expresses yet also conceals
power relations in its crafted use of words and in the gaps and silence
between those words.

Editors' Introduction Janny H. C. Leung and Alan Durant; Part I. Sui generis
or Socially Problematic: The Character of Legal Language: 1. The unspoken
language of the law Laura Nader; 2. Seeing sense: the complexity of key words
that tell us what law is Alan Durant; 3. Hiding in plain sight: the category
of ordinary language and the case law domain of transgender marriage
Christopher Hutton; Part II. Imperfect Fit between Legal Categories and Social
Discourse: 4. Effects of translation on the invisible power wielded by
language in the legal sphere: the case of Nepal Katsuo Nawa; 5. The language
of film and the representation of legal subjectivity in Juno Mak's Rigor
Mortis Marco Wan; Part III. Written in Silence: Hidden Social Meanings in
Legal Discourse: 6. Let the fingers do the talking: language, gesture and
power in closing argument Greg Matoesian and Kristin Enola Gilbert; 7.
Questions about questioning: courtroom practice in China and the USA Meizhen
Liao; 8. Law, language and community sentiment: behind hate speech doctrine in
India Siddharth Narrain; Part IV. Conflict between Linguistic and Legal
ideologies: 9. When voices fail to carry: voice projection and the case of the
'dumb' jury Chris Heffer; 10. Ideology and political meaning in legal
translation Janny H. C. Leung; Part V. Demands of Law and Limits of Language:
11. Law and the grammar of judgment Janet Ainsworth; 12. Legal indeterminacy
in the spoken word Lawrence M. Solan and Silvia Dahmen; Afterword: 13. The
said of the unsaid Peter Goodrich.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Forensic Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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