Meaning and Power in the Language of Law (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Leung, Janny H. C.

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108378185
• Artikelnr.: 50535394

Inhaltsangabe

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.