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Corpus-based Translation of Private Legal Documents

Patrizia Giampieri

Legal translation is hallmarked by peculiarities revolving around language intricacies, particular formulae, and system-specificity issues. At present, there is a spectrum of legal corpora dedicated to court-related topics and legislation, but there is no corpus composed of private legal documents… read more

[Natural Language Processing, 15] 2024. ix, 337 pp.

Other subjects Applied linguistics | Corpus linguistics | Translation Studies

Handbook of Terminology: Volume 3. Legal Terminology

Edited by Łucja Biel and Hendrik J. Kockaert

As a core component of legal language used to draft, enforce and practice law, legal terms have fascinated lawyers, linguists, terminologists and other scholars for centuries. Third in the series, this Handbook offers a comprehensive compendium of the current state of knowledge on legal terminology. read more

[Handbook of Terminology, 3] 2023. vii, 622 pp. | open access

Other subjects Lexicography | Terminology

Police Interviews: Communication challenges and solutions

Edited by Luna Filipović

This collection breaks new ground in police communication research. It involves the first instance of the same dataset being analysed from different theoretical and methodological perspectives as well as providing original and detailed insights into both monolingual and bilingual UK police… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 118] 2021. v, 151 pp.

Other subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Interpreting in Legal and Healthcare Settings: Perspectives on research and training

Edited by Eva N.S. Ng and Ineke H.M. Crezee

The importance of quality interpreting in legal and healthcare settings can never be stressed enough, when any mistake – no matter how small – can compromise the delivery of justice or put someone’s health at risk. This book addresses issues arising from interpreting in legal and healthcare… read more

[Benjamins Translation Library, 151] 2020. vii, 351 pp.

Other subjects Communication Studies | Interpreting | Translation Studies

Corpus-based Research on Variation in English Legal Discourse

Edited by Teresa Fanego and Paula Rodríguez-Puente

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the research carried out over the past thirty years in the vast field of legal discourse. The focus is on how such research has been influenced and shaped by developments in corpus linguistics and register analysis, and by the emergence from the mid… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 91] 2019. vii, 294 pp.

Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Common Law in an Uncommon Courtroom: Judicial interpreting in Hong Kong

Eva N.S. Ng

This book takes you into a common-law courtroom which is in no way similar to any other courtroom where common law is practised. This uniqueness is characterised, in particular, by the use of English as the trial language in a predominantly Cantonese-speaking society and by the presence of other… read more

[Benjamins Translation Library, 144] 2018. xxvi, 226 pp.

Other subjects Interpreting | Translation Studies

Legal Pragmatics

Edited by Dennis Kurzon and Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky

The volume Legal Pragmatics is a contribution to the interface between language and law. It looks at how the principles of language use can be beneficial to clarifying legal issues, its twelve chapters (together with the Introduction) offering a wide spectrum of the latest approaches to the area of… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 288] 2018. viii, 278 pp.

Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Observing Eurolects: Corpus analysis of linguistic variation in EU law

Edited by Laura Mori

Focusing on the multi-faceted topic of Eurolects, this volume brings together knowledge and methodologies from various disciplines, including sociolinguistics, legal linguistics, corpus linguistics, and translation studies. The legislative varieties of eleven EU official and working languages… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 86] 2018. xiv, 395 pp.

Other subjects Comparative linguistics | Corpus linguistics | Language policy | Translation Studies

Threatening in English: A mixed method approach

Julia Muschalik

Threatening is among the less pleasant “things we do with words”, but, together with other conflictive speech acts, it seems to play a central role in communication. Yet, little is still known about how and when exactly speakers threaten. The present volume addresses this void by giving an in-depth… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 284] 2018. xiv, 246 pp.

Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

New Insights into the Semantics of Legal Concepts and the Legal Dictionary

Martina Bajčić

This book focuses on legal concepts from the dual perspective of law and terminology. While legal concepts frame legal knowledge and take center stage in law, the discipline of terminology has traditionally been about concept description. Exploring topics common to both disciplines such as meaning,… read more

[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 17] 2017. xi, 222 pp.

Other subjects Lexicography | Terminology

Redefining Trial by Media: Towards a critical-forensic linguistic interface

Simon Statham

Redefining Trial by Media: Towards a critical-forensic linguistic interface applies a range of linguistic models to recast trial by media not as a sensationalist and infrequent phenomenon, but as a systematic and routine process. Using critical discourse analysis and cognitive linguistic models,… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 67] 2016. xiii, 325 pp.

Other subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

From the Classroom to the Courtroom: A guide to interpreting in the U.S. justice system

Elena M. de Jongh

From the Classroom to the Courtroom: A guide to interpreting in the U.S. justice system offers a wealth of information that will assist aspiring court interpreters in providing linguistic minorities with access to fair and expeditious judicial proceedings. The guide will familiarize prospective… read more

[American Translators Association Scholarly Monograph Series, XVII] 2012. xxii, 215 pp.

Other subjects Translation Studies

Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England: Including a CD-ROM containing An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED)

Merja Kytö, Peter J. Grund and Terry Walker

Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England examines various aspects of the witness depositions comprising An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED) on the accompanying CD-ROM.ETED combines modern corpus linguistic methodology and editorial theory, and makes available… read more

[Not in series, 162] 2011. xxi, 360 pp. (Incl. CD-Rom)

Doing Justice to Court Interpreting

Edited by Miriam Shlesinger † and Franz Pöchhacker

First published as a Special Issue of Interpreting (10:1, 2008) and complemented with two articles published in Interpreting (12:1, 2010), this volume provides a panoramic view of the complex and uniquely constrained practice of court interpreting. In an array of empirical papers, the nine authors… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 26] 2010. viii, 246 pp.

Other subjects Interpreting | Translation Studies

Dimensions of Forensic Linguistics

Edited by John Gibbons and M. Teresa Turell

This volume functions as a guide to the multidisciplinary nature of Forensic Linguistics understood in its broadest sense as the interface between language and the law. It seeks to address the links in this relatively young field between theory, method and data, without neglecting the need for new… read more

[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 5] 2008. vi, 316 pp.

Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Respecting Linguistic Diversity in the European Union

Edited by Xabier Arzoz

After the accession of ten new member-states in 2004, the number of official EU languages increased from eleven to twenty. In 2005, the Council of the European Union decided to expand the existing legal framework for Irish and for other languages, such as Basque, Catalan and Galician, which are… read more

[Studies in World Language Problems, 2] 2008. viii, 269 pp.

Other subjects Language policy | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

A Pragmatic Analysis of Legal Proofs of Criminal Intent

Sol Azuelos-Atias

A Pragmatic Analysis of Legal Proofs of Criminal Intent is a detailed investigation of proofs of criminal intent in Israeli courtrooms. The book analyses linguistic, pragmatic, interpretative and argumentative strategies used by Israeli lawyers and judges in order to examine the defendant’s… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 25] 2007. x, 180 pp.

Other subjects Applied linguistics | Communication Studies | Pragmatics

Analysing Citizenship Talk: Social positioning in political and legal decision-making processes

Edited by Heiko Hausendorf and Alfons Bora

Citizenship talk refers to various types of discourse initiated to make citizens take part in politically and socially contested decision-making processes (‘citizen participation’). ‘Citizenship’ has, accordingly, become one of the dazzling key words whenever the democratic deficit of modern… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 19] 2006. viii, 368 pp.

Other subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociology

Discourse and Power in a Multilingual World

Adrian Blackledge

In Discourse and Power in a Multilingual World the discourse of politicians and policy-makers in Britain links languages other than English, and therefore speakers of these languages, with civil disorder and threats to democracy, citizenship and nationhood. These powerful arguments travel along… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 15] 2005. x, 252 pp.

Other subjects Discourse studies | Language policy | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

The Discourse of Court Interpreting: Discourse practices of the law, the witness and the interpreter

Sandra Hale

This book explores the intricacies of court interpreting through a thorough analysis of the authentic discourse of the English-speaking participants, the Spanish-speaking witnesses and the interpreters. Written by a practitioner, educator and researcher, the book presents the reader with real… read more

[Benjamins Translation Library, 52] 2004. xviii, 267 pp.

Latinas’ Narratives of Domestic Abuse: Discrepant versions of violence

Shonna L. Trinch

In the American legal system valid witness-testimony is supposed to be invariable and unchanging, so defense attorneys highlight seeming inconsistencies in victims’ accounts to impeach their credibility. This book offers an examination of how and why victims of domestic violence might seem to be… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 17] 2003. x, 315 pp.

Other subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Law Enforcement, Communication, and Community

Edited by Howard Giles

Given widespread media attention to issues of crime and its prevention, police heroism, and new modes of police-community involvements, this international collection is timely. It is unique in examining ways in which police and citizens communicate across a range of contexts and problem areas.… read more

[Not in series, 112] 2002. x, 265 pp.

Other subjects Communication Studies

Separate and Unequal: Judicial rhetoric and women's rights

Huang Hoon Chng

This book argues for a multidisciplinary approach to the study of the language of judges with respect to the issue of gender discrimination. Drawing its inspiration from Dell Hymes' socially constituted linguistics, the author examines the language of the judicial opinions of four U.S. Supreme… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 3] 2002. viii, 156 pp.

Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Discourse of Silence

Dennis Kurzon

The book deals initially with the interpretation of the silent answer to a question. From a semiotic approach to the contrast between silence and speech mainly within a Greimasian framework, the discussion turns to the application of pragmatic tools such as conversational analysis and adjacency… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 49] 1998. vi, 162 pp.

Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

The Muzzled Muse: Literature and censorship in South Africa

Margreet de Lange

“The long history of censorship is a parallel and equally powerful history of literature. Censors bear witness to the power of the word even more forcefully than the writers and the readers they consider dangerous.” (Index on Censorship 6/1996)A critical assessment of literature produced under… read more

[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 32] 1997. x, 181 pp.

Other subjects Comparative literature & literary studies | English literature & literary studies | Other literatures

Old English Legal Language: The lexical field of theft

Jürg R. Schwyter

This corpus-based study examines the lexical field of theft in the Anglo-Saxon law-codes and documents containing reports of lawsuits (charters, writs, and some chapters of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle). The individual Old English lexemes are analysed not only in terms of their meaning, collocation… read more

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 15] 1996. iv, 197 pp.

Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics

The Practice of Court Interpreting

Alicia B. Edwards

The Practice of Court Interpreting describes how the interpreter works in the court room and other legal settings. The book discusses what is involved in court interpreting: case preparation, ethics and procedure, the creation and avoidance of error, translation and legal documents, tape… read more

[Benjamins Translation Library, 6] 1995. xiii, 192 pp.

Other subjects Interpreting | Translation Studies

Translation and the Law

Edited by Marshall Morris †

This long needed reference on the innumerable and increasing ways that the law intersects with translation and interpreting features essays by scholars and professions from the United States, Australia, Hong Kong, Iceland, Israel, Japan, and Sweden. The essays range from sophisticated treatments of… read more

[American Translators Association Scholarly Monograph Series, VIII] 1995. viii, 337 pp.

Other subjects Translation Studies

Constructing a Productive Other: Discourse theory and the Convention refugee hearing

Robert F. Barsky

This book is a description of the process of constructing a productive Other for the purpose of being admitted to Canada as a Convention refugee. The whole claiming procedure is analyzed with respect to two actual cases, and contextualized by reference to pertinent national and international… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 29] 1994. x, 272 pp.

Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics

Trial Language: Differential discourse processing and discursive formation

Gail Stygall

This study of Anglo-American legal discourse is the first comprehensive discourse analysis of American legal language in its prototypical setting, the trial by jury. With ethnographic data gathered in a civil jury trial, the book compares the discourse processing of the legal participants and the… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 26] 1994. xii, 226 pp.

Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

It is Hereby Performed...: Explorations in legal speech acts

Dennis Kurzon

This book deals with speech acts, especially performatives, that are regarded as ‘operative’ in legal discourse. After a detailed exposition of speech act theory in relation to legislative texts, the author discusses the legal document as a communicative act; potential speech acts and delegated… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, VII:6] 1986. vii, 81 pp.

Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics