Handbook of Communication in the Legal Sphere (Handbooks of Applied Linguistics) (Handbooks of Applied Linguistics [hal], 14)

This volume explores communication and its implications on interpretation, vagueness, multilingualism, and multiculturalism. It investigates cross-cultural perspectives with original methods, models, and arguments emphasizing national, EU, and international perspectives. Both traditional fields of investigations along with an emerging new field (Legal Visual Studies) are discussed. Communication addresses the necessity of an ongoing interaction between jurilinguists and legal professionals. This interaction requires persuasive, convincing, and acceptable reasons in justifying transparency, visual analyses, and dialogue with the relevant audience. The book is divided into five complementary sections: Professional Legal Communication; Legal Language in a Multilingual and Multicultural Context; Legal Communication in the Courtroom; Laws on Language and Language Rights; and Visualizing Legal Communication. The book shows the diversity in the understanding and practicing of legal communication and paves the way to an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural operation in our common understanding of legal communication. This book is suitable for advanced students in Linguistics and Law, and for academics and researchers working in the field of Language and Law and jurilinguists. * Twofold conception of communication in legal settings. * Communication as a bridge between traditional linguistic and legal approaches. * Emphasis on dynamic methods of interpretation as primary means of meaning construction in legal communication. "This volume explores communication and its implications on interpretation, vagueness, multilingualism, and multiculturalism. It investigates cross-cultural perspectives with original methods, models, and arguments emphasizing national, EU, and international perspectives. Both traditional fields of investigations along with an emerging new field (Legal Visual Studies) are discussed. Communication addresses the necessity of an ongoing interaction between jurilinguists and legal professionals. This interaction requires persuasive, convincing, and acceptable reasons in justifying transparency, visual analyses, and dialogue with the relevant audience. The book is divided into five complementary sections: Professional Legal Communication; Legal Language in a Multilingual and Multicultural Context; Legal Communication in the Courtroom; Laws on Language and Language Rights; and Visualizing Legal Communication. The book shows the diversity in the understanding and practicing of legal communication and paves the way to an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural operation in our common understanding of legal communication. This book is suitable for advanced students in Linguistics and Law, and for academics and researchers working in the field of Language and Law and jurilinguists."-- Provided by publisher Preface Contents List Of Figures List Of Figures Part I: The Foundations Of Legal Language 1. Legal Drafting 2. The Interpretation Of Laws 3. Language Rights 4. Language Planning And Legal Systems 5. Semantic Processing Of Legal Texts Part II: Forensic Linguistics And Court Setting 6. Implicit legal norms 7. Authorship attribution analysis 8. Topic management in police-suspect interviewing 9. Forensic voice comparison 10. Narrative practices and voice in court Part III: Legal language outside of court 11. Linguistic analysis in trade mark law: current approaches and new challenges 12. Defamation, language and linguistics 13. Future directions in law and popular culture: a British perspective Part IV: International legal settings 14. Multilingual interpretation of European Union law 15. Contemporary Chinese law: a linguistic perspective 16. Unity and varieties of Arabic as a legal language: practices of interpretation and translation 17. Law, language and communication in the Indian context 18. The many languages of Japanese legal language Biographical notes Index