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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 December 2017
      18 January 2018
      ISBN:
      9781316285756
      9781107112841
      9781107533158
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316285756
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.67kg, 342 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 346 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Law: General Interest, Law, Language and Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
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    Legal practitioners, linguists, anthropologists, philosophers and others have all explored fundamental challenges presented by language in formulating, interpreting and applying laws. Building on centuries of interaction between legal practice and jurisprudence, the modern field of 'law and language', or 'forensic linguistics', brings insights in linguistics and related fields to bear on topics including legal drafting and translation, statutory interpretation, expert evidence on language use and dynamics of courtroom interaction. This volume presents an interlocking series of research studies engaged with different legal jurisdictions and socio-political contexts as well as with the more abstract notion of 'law'. Together the chapters, written by international leaders in their fields, highlight recent directions in research and investigate in particular how law expresses yet also conceals power relations in its crafted use of words and in the gaps and silence between those words.

    Reviews

    ‘The editors of this book have put together a collection of articles discussing the unsaid in law, which is broad in scope and wide-ranging in theoretical backgrounds, making it a must for all those interested in the language of the law, and its implications.'

    Dennis Kurzon - University of Haifa, Israel

    ‘… a worthwhile book. Several chapters deploy linguistics to shed light on legal problems in a way that could potentially be of real benefit to the law.’

    Geoffrey Sampson Source: LINGUIST List

    ‘… I see this as a worthwhile book. Several chapters deploy linguistics to shed light on legal problems in a way that could potentially be of real benefit to the law …'

    Geoffrey Sampson Source: The LINGUIST List

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