Peter Tiersma

List of John Benjamins publications for which Peter Tiersma plays a role.

Articles

Tiersma, Peter 2008 The nature of legal languageDimensions of Forensic Linguistics, Gibbons, John and M. Teresa Turell (eds.), pp. 7–25 | Article
Legal languages are inevitably products of the history of the nation or state in which they are used, as well as the peculiar developments of the legal system in question. In terms of features, they tend to be characterized by minor differences in spelling, pronunciation, and orthography; long and… read more