Sol Azuelos-Atias

List of John Benjamins publications for which Sol Azuelos-Atias plays a role.

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Subjects Applied linguistics | Communication Studies | Forensic & legal linguistics | Pragmatics

Articles

Azuelos-Atias, Sol 2018 Chapter 5. Making legal language clear to legal laypersonsLegal Pragmatics, Kurzon, Dennis and Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky (eds.), pp. 101–116 | Chapter
It is widely accepted that the legal sub-language – the language of the written law, court discussions, and legal documents – needs rephrasing in order to make it understandable to legal laypersons. Adler (2012) holds that this is possible: legal texts can be rephrased in plain language (rather… read more
Azuelos-Atias, Sol 2015 Manipulation by deliberate failure of communicationPragmatics and Society 6:4, pp. 502–516 | Article
This work studies manipulative use of language that can be called “deliberate failure of communication”; I characterize this kind of manipulation and show that it can be found in the discourse of marketing experts and legal professionals. Relying on relevance theory, I show that manipulation of… read more
Azuelos-Atias, Sol 2009 The rationality of legal argumentationPragmatics & Cognition 17:2, pp. 383–401 | Article
According to Dascal (1998), controversy is characterised by a special kind of rationality, one result thereof being the unique contribution of this kind of polemics to the growth of knowledge. This, in turn, implies that complete cooperation may be detrimental for the efficiency of communication.… read more