Veröffentlicht von De Gruyter Mouton

Foundations in Language and Law [FLL]

Herausgegeben von: Janet Giltrow und Dieter Stein

ISSN: 2627-3950

e-ISSN 2627-3969

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Edited by Dieter Stein and Janet Giltrow, the Foundations in Language and Law series aims to go beyond the traditional surveys of scholarship in language and law. Volumes in the series provide foundational materials – theoretical, methodological, critical, practical – to advance the study of important topics in the field. While all volumes engage conceptually with current scholarship in the area, they also present original research which breaks new ground and indicates future directions for studies in language and law.

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Fachgebiete

Buch 2023

The Digital (R)Evolution of Legal Discourse

New Genres, Media, and Linguistic Practices

Patrizia Anesa, Jan Engberg

Band 10 in dieser Reihe

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The primary goal of this book is to reach a better understanding of how the digital revolution has affected language and discourse practices in the field of law. It also explores the complex nature of the techniques and discursive strategies which emerge in the relationship between the different stakeholders (including non-experts) thanks to technological advances. By adopting a discourse analytical perspective which combines both qualitative and quantitative approaches, the book explores the hybridity of new genres and communicative processes. It provides an interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns, as well as any solutions already adopted in their professional areas. Their insights converge in a truly multidisciplinary effort to devise and build advanced networks of knowledge to facilitate the interpretation of data in the field of legal linguistics - with a specific focus on digitalisation processes which concern contemporary legal discourse. The book is meant for scholars interested in the evolution of the interconnection between language and law in digital environments. It also addresses law and linguistics students, ideally with some training in language analysis and particular interest in new media and genres. All necessary linguistic or legal technicalities are, however, approached while bearing in mind a wide range of potential backgrounds and levels of education.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111048789
ISBN:: 9783111048789
ISBN:: 9783111050362
ISBN:: 9783111047362
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Forensische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Diskursanalyse
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Germanische Sprachen
Fachgebiet:: Englisch
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch 2023

Practicing Linguistics Without a License

Multimodal Oratory in Legal Performance

Gregory Matoesian, Kristin Enola Gilbert

Band 9 in dieser Reihe

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This book analyzes the complex interplay between gesture, speech and other modal resources (e.g., gaze, facial expression, motion) during the presentation of evidence and interpretation of testimony in court. By analyzing recordings of a well-known rape trial, the authors reveal how multimodal oratory contributes to forensic linguistics and gesture studies, and how it helps understand recent policy recommendations for reforming the rape trial.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111025575
ISBN:: 9783111025575
ISBN:: 9783111025827
ISBN:: 9783111023526
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Forensische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Gespräch, Diskurs
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Anthropologische Linguistik und Ethnolinguistik
Fachgebiet:: Diskursanalyse
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch 2024

Between Text, Meaning and Legal Languages

Linguistic Approaches to Legal Interpretation

Jan Engberg

Band 8 in dieser Reihe

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This collection on legal interpretation in a broad sense presents state-of-the-art linguistic approaches that are applied for studying interpretation and meaning generation in various legal settings. It covers different aspects of the concepts like judicial dissent, court argumentation, investigating sociological meaning, or comparing legal meaning in comparative law. Scholars can turn to the volume for methods and findings to ground their own inquiries, and students will find guides to topics and methods in the field of law, meaning generation, and language.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110799651
ISBN:: 9783110799651
ISBN:: 9783110799699
ISBN:: 9783110799606
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Forensische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Diskursanalyse
Fachgebiet:: Soziolinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch 2023

From Fear to Hate

Legal-Linguistic Perspectives on Migration

Victoria Guillén-Nieto, Antonio Doval Pais, Dieter Stein

Band 6 in dieser Reihe

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This volume offers an in-depth analysis of the social phenomenon of migration from various legal-linguistic perspectives. Migration has become a global phenomenon and a burning issue provoking social conflict and political instability in modern societies all over the world. The question of dealing with migrants and asylum seekers has dominated political discourse. It has given rise to national and international legislation on emigration and immigration, some of them including discriminatory provisions, pressed laws against immigration (Acts of exclusion) and prompted anti-migration rhetoric and hate speech against migrants. Important efforts have been made in both common law and civil law jurisdictions to protect migrants' fundamental rights to dignity and equality.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110789157
ISBN:: 9783110789157
ISBN:: 9783110789027
ISBN:: 9783110789195
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Forensische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik, andere
Fachgebiet:: Linguistische Beschreibungsebenen
Fachgebiet:: Pragmatik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Diskursanalyse
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch 2022

From Lying to Perjury

Linguistic and Legal Perspectives on Lies and Other Falsehoods

Laurence R. Horn

Band 3 in dieser Reihe

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This volume provides new insights on lying and (intentionally) misleading in and out of the courtroom, a timely topic for scholarship and society. Not all deceptive statements are lies; not every lie under oath amounts to perjury—but what are the relevant criteria? Taxonomies of falsehood based on illocutionary force, utterance context and speakers’ intentions have been debated by linguists, moral philosophers, social psychologists and cognitive scientists. Legal scholars have examined the boundary between actual perjury and garden-variety lies.

The fourteen previously unpublished essays in this book apply theoretical and empirical tools to delineate the landscape of falsehood, half-truth, perjury, and verbal manipulation, including puffery, bluffing, and bullshit. The papers in this collection address conceptual and ethical aspects of lying vs. misleading and the correlation of this opposition with the Gricean pragmatic distinction between what is said and what is implicated. The questions of truth and lies addressed in this volume have long engaged the attention of scholars in linguistics, philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, organizational research, and the law, and researchers from all these fields will find this book of interest.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110733730
ISBN:: 9783110733730
ISBN:: 9783111356884
ISBN:: 9783110733815
ISBN:: 9783110738391
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Forensische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik, andere
Fachgebiet:: Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Soziale Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Psycholinguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch Open Access 2023

Hate Speech

Linguistic Perspectives

Victoria Guillén-Nieto

Band 2 in dieser Reihe

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Hate speech has been extensively studied by disciplines such as social psychology, sociology, history, politics and law. Some significant areas of study have been the origins of hate speech in past and modern societies around the world; the way hate speech paves the way for harmful social movements; the socially destructive force of propaganda; and the legal responses to hate speech. On reviewing the literature, one major weakness stands out: hate speech, a crime perpetrated primarily by malicious and damaging language use, has no significant study in the field of linguistics. Historically, pragmatic theories have tended to address language as cooperative action, geared to reciprocally informative polite understanding. As a result of this idealized view of language, negative types of discourse such as harassment, defamation, hate speech, etc. have been neglected as objects of linguistic study. Since they go against social, moral and legal norms, many linguists have wrongly depicted those acts of wrong communication as unusual, anomalous or deviant when they are, in fact, usual and common in modern societies all over the world.

The book analyses the challenges legal practitioners and linguists must meet when dealing with hate speech, especially with the advent of new technologies and social networks, and takes a linguistic perspective by targeting the knowledge the linguist can provide that makes harassment actionable.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110672619
ISBN:: 9783110672619
ISBN:: 9783110672763
ISBN:: 9783110672466
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Forensische Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik, andere
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton

Buch 2021

Legal Meanings

The Making and Use of Meaning in Legal Reasoning

Janet Giltrow, Frances Olsen, Donato Mancini

Band 1 in dieser Reihe

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This collection is about how law makes meaning and how meaning makes law. Through clear methodology and substantial findings, chapters expose the deficits of ‘literal’ meaning and the difficulties in 'ordinary' meaning, in international legal contexts and in more immediate social ones, as well as in courtrooms. Further, chapters in this volume see the challenges to national and international commitments to all speakers sharing a common meaning.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110720969
ISBN:: 9783110720969
ISBN:: 9783111266107
ISBN:: 9783110721003
ISBN:: 9783110720914
Fachgebiet:: Rechtswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Rechtswissenschaften, andere
Fachgebiet:: Linguistik und Semiotik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik
Fachgebiet:: Angewandte Linguistik, andere
Fachgebiet:: Theorien und Fachgebiete
Fachgebiet:: Kognitive Linguistik
Verlag:: De Gruyter Mouton