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Online-Ressource (1657 p)
ISBN:
9780199673667
Series Statement:
Current Legal Issues
Content:
Current Legal Issues, like its sister volume Current Legal Problems (now available in journal format), is based upon an annual colloquium held at University College London. Each year leading scholars from around the world gather to discuss the relationship between law and another discipline of thought. Each colloquium examines how the external discipline is conceived in legal thought and argument, how the law is pictured in that discipline, and analyses points ofcontroversy in the use, and abuse, of extra-legal arguments within legal theory and practice.Law and Language, the fifteenth volume i
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; Contents; List of Contributors; 1. Law and Language: An Introduction; 2. Legal Texts and Canons of Construction: A View from Current Pragmatic Theory; 3. Linguistic Meaning and Legal Truth; 4. Truth in Law; 5. Language, Truth, and Law; 6. Claims of Legal Authorities and 'Expressions of Intention': The Limits of Philosophy of Language; 7. Legal Pluralism: A Systems Theory Approach to Language, Translation, and Communication; 8. Frame Semantics and the 'Internal Point of View'
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9. Hart as Contextualist? Theories of Interpretation in Language and the Law10. On Goodness and Genre: Talking about Virtue in Law and Literature; 11. The Grin's Cat: Language, Law, and Literature; 12. Reading and Writing the Law: Macaulay in India; 13. 'Where be his quiddities now'? Law and Language in Hamlet; 14. Stories in Law: Providing Space for 'Oppositionists'?; 15. Literal Interpretation and English Precedent in Joe Ma's Lawyer, Lawyer; 16. Toward a Cognitive Science of Legal Interpretation
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17. Do You Kick a Dog when it's Down? Considering the Use of Children's Video-Recorded Testimonies in Court18. The Power of Naming: Surnames, Children, and Spouses; 19. The Role of Language in Legal Contexts: A Forensic Cross-Linguistic Viewpoint; 20. Vagueness and Power Delegation in Law: A Reply to Sorensen; 21. Plato's Fertility Clinic: Status and Identity Rhetoric in Parenthood Disputes; 22. Silence, Speech, and the Paradox of the Right to Remain Silent in American Police Interrogation; 23. The Consumption of Legal Language: Consuming the Law; 24. (Language + Law)2 = ?
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25. MMORPGing, Law, and Lingo26. Construing Commercial Contracts: No Need for Violence; 27. Why Are Non-US Contracts Written in US Legalese? Some Preliminary Thoughts and a Research Agenda; 28. The Role of Parliamentary Rhetoric in Facilitating the Racial Effect of the Stop and Search Powers in Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000; 29. Precedent at the Court of Justice of the European Union: The Linguistic Aspect; 30. Law and Language(s) at the Heart of the European Project: Educating Different Kinds of Lawyers; 31. Foreign Law in Translation: If Truth Be Told…
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32. First-Person Perspectives in Legal Decisions33. Deaf People at the Old Bailey From the 18th Century Onwards; 34. Rule of the Root: Proto-Indo-European Domination of Legal Language; 35. Necessary Violence? Inscribing the Subject of Law; Subject Index; Name Index; Footnotes; Ch01 Footnotes; Ch02 Footnotes; Ch03 Footnotes; Ch04 Footnotes; Ch05 Footnotes; Ch06 Footnotes; Ch07 Footnotes; Ch08 Footnotes; Ch09 Footnotes; Ch10 Footnotes; Ch11 Footnotes; Ch12 Footnotes; Ch13 Footnotes; Ch14 Footnotes; Ch15 Footnotes; Ch16 Footnotes; Ch17 Footnotes; Ch18 Footnotes; Ch19 Footnotes; Ch20 Footnotes
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Ch21 Footnotes
Additional Edition:
9780191654688
Additional Edition:
Print version Law and Language : Current Legal Issues Volume 15
Language:
English
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