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Law at Work
Studies in Legal Ethnomethods
Av Baudouin Dupret, Michael Lynch m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
2017 kr
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The studies in this volume use ethnographic, ethnomethodological, and sociolinguistic research to demonstrate how legal agents conduct their practices and exercise their authority in relation to non-expert participants and broader publics. Instead of treating law as a body of doctrines, or law and …
Shallow Equality and Symbolic Jurisprudence in Multilingual Legal Orders
Inbunden, 2019
1244 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.What challenges face jurisdictions that attempt to conduct law in two or …
Discourse, Identity, and Social Change in the Marriage Equality Debates
Av Karen Tracy
Inbunden, 2016
1894 kr
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Karen Tracy examines the identity-work of judges and attorneys in state supreme courts as they debated the legality of existing marriage laws. Exchanges in state appellate courts are juxtaposed with the talk that occurred between citizens and elected officials in legislative hearings considering …
Entextualizing Domestic Violence
Language Ideology and Violence Against Women in the Anglo-American Hearsay Principle
Inbunden, 2015
1631 kr
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Language ideology is a concept developed in linguistic anthropology to explain the ways in which ideas about the definition and functions of language can become linked with social discourses and identities. In Entextualizing Domestic Violence, Jennifer Andrus demonstrates how language ideologies …
Conceptions in the Code
How Metaphors Explain Legal Challenges in Digital Times
Inbunden, 2017
2047 kr
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Stefan Larsson's Conceptions in the Code makes a significant contribution to sociolegal analysis, representing a valuable contribution to conceptual metaphor theory. By utilising the case of copyright in a digital context it explains the role that metaphor plays when the law is dealing with …
Deceptive Ambiguity by Police and Prosecutors
Inbunden, 2017
2037 kr
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Much has been written about how criminal suspects, defendants, and the targets of undercover operations employ ambiguous language as they interact with the legal system. This book examines the other side of the coin, describing fifteen criminal investigations that demonstrate how police, …
Legal Integration and Language Diversity
Rethinking Translation in EU Lawmaking
Av C.J.W. Baaij
Inbunden, 2018
2037 kr
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How can the European Union create laws that are uniform in a multitude of languages? Specifically, how can it attain both legal integration and language diversity simultaneously, without the latter compromising the former? C.J.W. Baaij argues that the answer lies in the domain of translation. A …
Language and Legal Interpretation in International Law
Av Anne Lise Kjaer, Joanna Lam
Inbunden, 2022
1351 kr
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International law is usually communicated in more than one language and reflects common norms that lawyers and adjudicators across national legal cultures agree on and develop together. As a result, the negotiation of the wording and meaning of international legislative texts is an integral part of …
Legal Translation Outsourced
Häftad, 2019
671 kr
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As a result of globalization, cross-border transactions and litigation, and multilingual legislation, outsourcing legal translation has become common practice. Unfortunately, over-reliance on such outsourcing has given rise to significant dangers, including information asymmetry, goal divergence, …
Legal Translation Outsourced
Inbunden, 2019
1787 kr
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As a result of globalization, cross-border transactions and litigation, and multilingual legislation, outsourcing legal translation has become common practice. Unfortunately, over-reliance on such outsourcing has given rise to significant dangers, including information asymmetry, goal divergence, …
Strategic Indeterminacy in the Law
Av David Lanius
Inbunden, 2019
1827 kr
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Though indeterminacy in legal texts is pervasive, there is a widespread misunderstanding about what indeterminacy is, particularly as it pertains to law. Legal texts present unique challenges insofar as they address a heterogeneous audience, are applied in a variety of unforeseeable circumstances …
Translating the Social World for Law
Linguistic Tools for a New Legal Realism
Av Elizabeth Mertz, William K. Ford m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
400 kr
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This volume examines the linguistic problems that arise in efforts to translate between law and the social sciences. We usually think of "translation" as pertaining to situations involving distinct languages such as English and Swahili. But realistically, we also know that there are many kinds of …
Confronting the Death Penalty
How Language Influences Jurors in Capital Cases
Häftad, 2020
308 kr
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Confronting the Death Penalty: How Language Influences Jurors in Capital Cases probes how jurors make the ultimate decision about whether another human being should live or die. Drawing on ethnographic and qualitative linguistic methods, this book explores the means through which language helps to …
The Language of Canon Law
Av Judith Hahn
Inbunden, 2023
1276 kr
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The Roman Catholic Church has been criticized for many reasons, including its legalism. The growing aversion of church members to the law and the church hierarchy's juridified interpretation of Christianity is fueled by the language of ecclesiastical law (medieval legal Latin), which excludes most …
I'm Sorry for What I've Done
The Language of Courtroom Apologies
Inbunden, 2014
1742 kr
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This book examines 52 apologetic allocutions produced during federal sentencing hearings. The practice of inviting defendants to make a statement in their own behalf is a long-standing one and it is understood as offering defendants the opportunity to impress a judge or jury with their remorse, …
From Truth to Technique at Trial
A Discursive History of Advocacy Advice Texts
Inbunden, 2016
1950 kr
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From Truth to Technique addresses key questions raised by the burgeoning literature in what Philip Gaines calls advocacy advice texts-manuals, handbooks, and other how-to guides-written by lawyers for lawyers, both practicing and aspiring, to help them be as effective as possible in trial advocacy. …
Confronting the Death Penalty
How Language Influences Jurors in Capital Cases
Av Robin Conley
Inbunden, 2015
772 kr
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Confronting the Death Penalty: How Language Influences Jurors in Capital Cases probes how jurors make the ultimate decision about whether another human being should live or die. Drawing on ethnographic and qualitative linguistic methods, this book explores the means through which language helps to …
Speaking of Language and Law
Conversations on the Work of Peter Tiersma
Av Peter Tiersma, Lawrence Solan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1742 kr
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Among the most prominent scholars of language and law is Peter Tiersma, a law professor at Loyola Law School with a doctorate in linguistics (co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law). Tiersma's significant body of work traverses a variety of legal and linguistic fields. This book …
Speak English or What?
Codeswitching and Interpreter Use in New York City Courts
Av Philipp Sebastian Angermeyer
Inbunden, 2015
1950 kr
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This book presents a study of interpreter-mediated interaction in New York City small claims courts, drawing on audio-recorded arbitration hearings and ethnographic fieldwork. Focusing on the language use of speakers of Haitian Creole, Polish, Russian, or Spanish, the study explores how these …
Dueling Discourses
The Construction of Reality in Closing Arguments
Inbunden, 2015
1666 kr
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Dueling Discourses offers qualitative and quantitative analyses of the linguistic and discursive forms utilized by opposing lawyers in their closing arguments during criminal trials. Laura Felton Rosulek analyzes how these arguments construct contrasting representations of the same realities, …
The Legal Language of Scottish Burghs
Standardization and Lexical Bundles (1380-1560)
Inbunden, 2013
1742 kr
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This book offers an innovative, corpus-driven approach to historical legal discourse. It is the first monograph to examine textual standardization patterns in legal and administrative texts on the basis of lexical bundles, drawing on a comprehensive corpus of medieval and early modern legal texts. …
Discursive Constructions of Consent in the Legal Process
Av Ehrlich, Susan Ehrlich m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1742 kr
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As a linguistically-grounded, critical examination of consent, this volume views consent not as an individual mental state or act but as a process that is interactionally-and discursively-situated. It highlights the ways in which legal consent is often fictional (at best) due to the impoverished …
Translating the Social World for Law
Linguistic Tools for a New Legal Realism
Av Mertz, Elizabeth Mertz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
2543 kr
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This volume examines the linguistic problems that arise in efforts to translate between law and the social sciences. We usually think of "translation " as pertaining to situations involving distinct languages such as English and Swahili. But realistically, we also know that there are many kinds of …
