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Law, Language and the Courtroom: Legal Linguistics and the Discourse of Judges

Law, Language and the Courtroom: Legal Linguistics and the Discourse of Judges

Author: Stanislaw Gozdz Roszkowski; Gianluca Pontrandolfo
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780367721886

Published In: May 2023
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Hardback Edition ISBN: 9780367721855

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This book explores the language of judges. It is concerned with understanding how language works in judicial contexts. Using a range of disciplinary and methodological perspectives, it looks in detail at the ways in which judicial discourse is argued, constructed, interpreted and perceived. Focussing on four central themes - constructing judicial discourse and judicial identities, judicial argumentation and evaluative language, judicial interpretation and clarity in judicial discourse, the book’s ultimate goal is to provide a comprehensive and in-depth overview of current critical issues of the role of language in judicial settings. Written by contributors from legal linguists, lawyers, legal scholars, legal practitioners, legal translators, and anthropologists, the work explores patterns of linguistic organization and use in judicial institutions and analyzes language as an instrument for understanding both the judicial decision-making process and its outcome.

The book will be an invaluable resource for scholars in legal linguistics and those specializing in judicial argumentation and reasoning and forensic linguists interested in the use of language in judicial settings.

Editors’ Introduction

Stanisław Goźdź-Roszkowski & Gianluca Pontrandolfo

Foreword - Dieter Stein

SECTION 1. CONSTRUCTING JUDICIAL DISCOURSE AND JUDICIAL IDENTITIES

1. The Judicial Eurolect and EU English: a genre profiling of CJEU judgments - Łucja Biel, Dariusz Koźbiał, Dariusz Müller

2. Evidentiality in US Supreme Court opinions: focus on passive structures with say and tell - Magdalena Szczyrbak

3. Standardization in judicial discourse: the case of the evolution of the French arrêts de la Cour de cassation and the use of forms in European procedural law - Margarete Flöter-Durr & Paulina Nowak-Korcz

4. The ‘consensus’ case law of the European Court of Human Rights in light of the Court’s legitimacy over time - Anne Lise Kjaer

5. Spider Woman beats Hulk: Baroness Hale and the prorogation of Parliament - Ruth Breeze

SECTION 2. JUDICIAL ARGUMENTATION AND EVALUATIVE LANGUAGE

6. Making a corpus-linguistic U-turn in multilingual adjudication - Martina Bajčić

7. Evaluative language and strategic manoeuvring in the Justification of Judicial Decisions. The case of Teleological-Evaluative Argumentation - Stanisław Goźdź-Roszkowski

8. "… without proof of negligence or a causative connection…": On causal argumentation in Supreme Court of Ireland’s judgments on data protection - Davide Mazzi

9. A corpus-based comparative analysis of the evaluative lexicon found in judicial decisions on immigration - María José Marín Pérez

SECTION 3. JUDICIAL INTERPRETATION

10. Pedagogies of Context: Language Ideology and Expression Rights at the European Court of Human Rights - Jessica Greenberg

11. Free speech, artistic expression and blasphemy laws within the ECHR margin of appreciation - Joanna Kulesza

12. The United States Supreme Court’s Language of Racism - Kathryn Stanchi

13. Do the Words of the American Constitution Still Matter? The Question of "the Meaning of Meaning", in Current Judicial Argumentation - Anna Tomza-Tulejska & James Patrick Higgins

14. How interdisciplinarity could improve the scientific value of legal studies of international judicial decisions - Marek Jan Wasinìski

SECTION 4. CLARITY IN JUDICIAL DISCOURSE

15. Conveying the right message: principles and problems of multilingual communication at the European Court of Human Rights - James Brannan

16. Concision and Clarity in Italian Court Proceedings - Antonio Muraand Jacqueline Visconti