Format:
xix, 306 S
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Ill
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25 cm
ISBN:
9780199334186
Series Statement:
Oxford studies in language and law
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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On the origins of legal English
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Writing the law in England
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Some myths about legal language
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On the relationship between legal and ordinary language
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Legal language and its history : quo imus? qua imus?
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Philosophical hermeneutics in the age of pixels : Hans-Georg Gadamer, Peter Tiersma, and Dasein in the age of the internet
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The language of lawyers and the language of plumbers
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Words, words, words : but what's in a legal text?
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Text, tape and pixels in the making of wills
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Reassessing unilateral contracts
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Philosophy of language, unilateral contracts, and the law
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How to do legal things with words : the contracts scholarship of Peter Tiersma
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Tiersma contra mundum in defence of promises
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Formalism, speech acts, and the realities of contract formation
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The language of silence : implication and the role of conversation
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Symbolic destruction
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Law's metalinguistics : silence, speech, and action
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The sounds of silence
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Speech or silence : within and beyond language and law
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The language of consent in rape law
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"Inferring" consent in the context of rape and sexual assault
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Felicitous consent
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Reflections on Peter Tiersma's "The language and consent in rape law
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Speaking of consent
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Dafamatory language and the act of accusing
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Defafamation as speech act : a theory that works
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Applying Tiersma's defamation theory to defamation cases
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Scarlet letter or badge of honour? Semantic interpretation in changing contexts of culture
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Dynamic statutes
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The textualization of precedent
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Talk about text as text
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Textualization, textualism, and purpose-stating preambles
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Between paper and pixels : how the form of modern laws changed their function
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The language of perjury : speaking falsely by saying nothing
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"Threats"
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How we play games with words in the law
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Toward a communicative approach to law- and rule-making
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Threats : a pragmalinguistic approach to the analysis of a speech crime
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The judge as linguist
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Applied (forensic) linguistics in autochthonic and allochthonic use
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The sound of silence : Miranda waivers, selective literalism and social context
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Words alone
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Sizzling irons : speaking of criminal justice
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The history of jury instructions
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Capital instructions : comprehension as a matter of life or death
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Navigating the rocky road
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Authority and accommodation : judicial responses to jurors' questions
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Jury instructions written for jurors : a perennial challenge
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Bibliography of Peter Tiersma's work.
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Tiersma, Peter Meijes 1952-2014
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Recht
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Rechtssprache
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