Language in the Negotiation of Justice: Contexts, Issues and Applications

Language in the Negotiation of Justice: Contexts, Issues and Applications

Language in the Negotiation of Justice: Contexts, Issues and Applications

Language in the Negotiation of Justice: Contexts, Issues and Applications

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Overview

This book explores the ways language is used by the professional legal community for the communication of its main business - the negotiation of justice - in today’s globalized world. The volume addresses three main aspects of language use in the negotiation of justice. Beginning with the legal contexts of litigation, arbitration and mediation, the book moves on to discuss the main issues identified in those contexts and finally it explores the applications of legal linguistics. These three aspects are studied across the themes of analyses of legal discourse and genres, issues of power and ideology in the use of legal language, cross-cultural legal communication, questions of recontextualization, accessibility and plain language, law and disciplinary identity, and pedagogy of legal language.

With chapters set across a variety of jurisdictions, the contributions offer analytical insights into the interface between law and language. The book is a valuable resource for those in the legal community wishing to increase their understanding of the use of language for the negotiation of justice.



Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781472403056
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date: 12/28/2013
Series: Law, Language and Communication
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 7 MB

About the Author

Christopher Williams is full Professor of English Language and Linguistics in the Department of Law at Foggia University in southern Italy. He has published extensively in the field of legal English. Besides his monographic work Tradition and Change in Legal English: Verbal Constructions in Prescriptive Texts (2005), he has co-edited with Maurizio Gotti the volume Legal Discourse across Languages and Cultures (2010). He has also co-edited with Ilse Depraetere a volume on future time reference which appeared in a special issue of English Language and Linguistics in 2010. He is chief editor of the journal ESP Across Cultures.

Girolamo Tessuto is Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics in the Department of Law, Second University of Naples. His main research interests are in genre analysis of academic and professional discourses in legal contexts. In addition to several publications appearing as research papers, book chapters and co-edited work, he has recently published a research monograph Investigating English Legal Genres in Academic and Professional Contexts (2012). He is Editorial Board member of international linguistic journals and chief editor of the Explorations in Language and Law publication series.

Christopher Williams, Girolamo Tessuto, William Bromwich, Meizhen Liao, Judith Turnbull, Vijay K. Bhatia, Isabel Corona, Natale Rampazzo, Lucia Abbamonte, Flavia Cavaliere, Olga Denti , Michela Giordano, Hugo Bowles, Valeria Moretti, Ross Charnock, Bronwen Hughes, Antonella Napolitano, Ersilia Incelli, Tarja Salmi-Tolonen.


Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction, Christopher Williams and Girolamo Tessuto; Part I Contexts: Litigation: ‘Mrs Buckley, you’re telling a pack of lies’: cross-examination in the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh, William Bromwich; Power in interruption in Chinese criminal courtroom discourse, Meizhen Liao; ‘For the reasons given above, I consider that the Court should…’: a linguistic analysis of argumentation in the opinions of British and Italian advocates-general at the Court of Justice of the European Union, Judith Turnbull; Arbitration: International commercial arbitration: a protected practice, Vijay K. Bhatia; Arbitration across genres: from ‘private resolution’ to ‘public war’, Isabel Corona; Arbiter →arbitration: genesis of a functional word, Natale Rampazzo; Mediation: Restorative justice, a comparative analysis of discursive practices: dialogistic exchanges in the USA and Italy, Lucia Abbamonte and Flavia Cavaliere; Participants’ relationships in online dispute resolution: legal discourse as social practice, Olga Denti and Michela Giordano. Part II Issues: Identity: Negotiating legal identity online: narratives of drug use, Hugo Bowles and Valeria Moretti; Recontextualization: Ethical particularism and contextualist interpretation in impossible attempts, Ross Charnock; Comprehensibility: From primary legislation to public presence. The language of gay rights: from legislation to lobbying, Bronwen Hughes and Antonella Napolitano; Metaphor: Shaping reality through metaphorical patterns in legislative texts on immigration: a corpus-assisted approach, Ersilia Incelli. Part III Applications: Legal linguistics as a line of study and an academic discipline, Tarja Salmi-Tolonen; Learning to fly: the prospects for legal linguistics in the academic curriculum and beyond, Christopher Goddard; Index.


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