Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A history of the language of law / Peter M. Tiersma
  • Legal vocabulary / Heikki E.S. Mattila
  • The Grammar and structure of legal texts / Risto Hiltunen
  • Text and genre / Maurizio Gotti
  • The Plain language movement / Mark Adler
  • Linguistic issues in statutory interpretation / Lawrence M. Solan
  • Contract formation as a speech act / Sanford Schane
  • Constitutional interpretation / Robert W. Bennett
  • Ambiguity and vagueness in legal interpretation / Ralf Poscher
  • Legal interpretation and the philosophy of language / Brian H. Bix
  • Bilingual interpretation rules as a component of language rights in Canada / Michel Bastarache
  • Word meaning and the problem of a globalized legal order / Jan Engberg
  • Challenges to the legal translator / Susan Sarcevic
  • Language and law in the European Union : The Multilingual jurisprudence of the ECJ / Karen McAuliffe
  • Fifty years of multilingual interpretation in the European Union / Cornelis J.W. Baaij
  • Linguistic human rights / Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
  • Language policy in the United States / Peter M. Tiersma
  • Legal rights of linguistic minorities in the European Union / Durk Gorter, Jasone Cenoz
  • Investigating the language situation in Africa / Tunde Olusola Opeibi
  • The Meaning of silence in the rights to remain silent / Janet Ainsworth
  • Potential impact of juvenile suspects' linguistic abilities on Miranda understanding and appreciation / Naomi E.S. Goldstein, Sharon Messenheimer Kelley, Christina L. Riggs Romaine
  • The Caution in England and wales / Frances Rock
  • The Language of consent in police encounters / Janice Nadler, J.D. Trout
  • The Language of crime / Peter M. Tiersma, Lawrence M. Solan
  • Interrogation through pragmatic implication : Sticking to the letter of the law while violating its intent / Deborah Davis, Richard A. Leo
  • Discourse in the US courtroom / Gail Stygall
  • Courtroom discourse in Japan's New Judicial Order / Mami Hiraike Okawara
  • Courtroom discourse in China / Meizhen Liao
  • The Language of criminal trials in an inquisitorial system : The Case of the Netherlands / Martha L. Komter, Marijke Malsch
  • Linguistic issues in courtroom interpretation / Susan Berk-Seligson
  • Instructing the jury / Nancy S. Marder
  • Using linguistics in trademark cases / Roger W. Shuy
  • Language and copyright / Ronald R. Butters
  • The Psycholinguistic basis of distinctiveness in trademark law / Syugo Hotta, Masahiro Fujita
  • Author identification in the forensic setting / Carole E. Chaski
  • Corpus linguistics in authorship identification / Krzysztof Kredens, Malcolm Coulthard
  • Detecting plagiarism / David Woolls
  • Language analysis for determination of origin : Objective evidence for refugee status determination / Peter L. Patrick
  • Factors affecting lay persons' identification of speakers / A Daniel Yarmey
  • Forensic speaker comparison : A linguistic-acoustic perspective / Paul Foulkes, Peter French