Format:
Online-Ressource (329 p)
ISBN:
9780199334186
Series Statement:
Oxford Studies in Language and Law
Content:
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 offers a selection of twelve of Tiersma's most influential publications, divided into five thematic areas that are critical to both law and linguistics: Language and Law as a Field of Inquiry, Legal Language and its History, Language and Civil Liability, Language and Criminal Justice, and Jury Instruction
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Series; Speaking of Language and Law; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Part I Legal Language and Its History; 1. On the Origins of Legal English; 2. Why is Legal Language So Conservative?; 3. Writing the Law in England; 4. Some Myths about Legal Language; 5. On the Relationship Between Legal and Ordinary Language; 6. Legal Language and Its History: Quo Imus? Qua Imus?; 7. Philosophical Hermeneutics in the Age of Pixels: Hans-Georg Gadamer, Peter Tiersma, and Dasein in the Age of the Internet
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8. The Language of Lawyers and the Language of Plumbers9. "Words, Words, Words"-But What's in a Legal Text?; Part II The Language of Contracts and Wills; 10. Text, Tape and Pixels in the Making of Wills; 11. Reassessing Unilateral Contracts; 12. Philosophy of Language, Unilateral Contracts, and the Law; 13. How to Do Legal Things with Words: The Contracts Scholarship of Peter Tiersma; 14. Tiersma Contra Mundum: in Defence of Promises; 15. Formalism, Speech Acts, and the Realities of Contract Formation; 16. The Language of Silence: Implication and the Role of Conversation
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17. Symbolic Destruction18. Law's Metalinguistics: Silence, Speech, and Action; 19. The Sounds of Silence; 20. Speech or Silence: Within and Beyond Language and Law; 21. The Language of Consent in Rape Law; 22. "Inferring" Consent in the Context of Rape and Sexual Assault; 23. Felicitous Consent; 24. Reflections on Peter Tiersma's "The Language and Consent in Rape Law"; 25. Speaking of Consent; 26. Defamatory Language and the Act of Accusing; 27. Defamation as Speech Act: A Theory that Works; 28. Applying Tiersma's Defamation Theory to Defamation Cases
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29. Scarlet Letter or Badge of Honour? Semantic Interpretation in Changing Contexts of CulturePart IV Interpreting Laws; 30. Dynamic Statutes; 31. The Textualization of Precedent; 32. Talk about Text as Text; 33. Textualization, Textualism, and Purpose-Stating Preambles; 34. Between Paper and Pixels-How the Form of Modern Laws Changed Their Function; Part V Language and Criminal Justice; 35. The Language of Perjury: Speaking Falsely by Saying Nothing; 36. Threats; 37. How We Play Games with Words in the Law; 38. Toward a Communicative Approach to Law- and Rule-Making
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39. Threats: A Pragmalinguistic Approach to the Analysis of a Speech Crime40. The Judge as Linguist; 41. Applied (Forensic) Linguistics in Autochthonic and Allochthonic Use; 42. The Sound of Silence: Miranda Waivers, Selective Literalism, and Social Context; 43. Words Alone; 44. Sizzling Irons: Speaking of Criminal Justice; Part VI Jury Instructions; 45. The History of Jury Instructions; 46. Capital Instructions: Comprehension as a Matter of Life or Death; 47. Navigating the Rocky Road; 48. Authority and Accommodation: Judicial Responses to Jurors' Questions
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49. Jury Instructions Written for Jurors: A Perennial Challenge
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199334193
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199334186
Additional Edition:
Print version Speaking of Language and Law: Conversations on the Work of Peter Tiersma
Language:
English
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