The Law and Critical Discourse Studies

Author: Le Cheng; David Machin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032454139
Published In: October 2023
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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This book provides a range of highly accessible approaches from Discourse Studies for analyzing legal language in legislation, documents, proceedings and in news media reporting.

In this insightful volume, scholars from both Law and Linguistics come together to provide a range of approaches from Discourse Studies for analyzing legal language in legislation, documents, proceedings and in news media reporting. The book begins with tackling exactly why such approaches are hugely helpful and valuable for understanding the nature of legal language and how it is used. The chapters, written in an accessible manner, show how discourse analysis can be used to throw light on the ideas and values which can be buried in legal language. The book provides a valuable resource for researchers wishing to carry out their own research or for use in teaching.

The Law and Critical Discourse Studies will be a key resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of law, language and linguistics, discourse studies, sociology, and media and cultural studies.

This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal 'Critical Discourse Studies'.

Introduction: The Law and Critical Discourse Studies

David Machin, Le Cheng

Protecting "Competition, not Competitors": Antitrust Discourse and the AT&T-Time Warner Merger

Pawel Popiel

Applying the principles of Vivir Bien to a court resolution in Bolivia: language, discourse, and land law

María Itatí Dolhare and Sol Rojas-Lizana

Race, religion, law: An intertextual micro-genealogy of ‘stirring up hatred’ provisions in England and Wales

Jen Neller

The Magna Carta of Women as the Philippine Translation of the CEDAW: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis

Gay Marie Manalo Francisco

The Depoliticization of Law in the News: BBC reporting on US use of extraterritorial or ‘long-arm’ law against China

Le Cheng, Xiaobin Zhu and David Machin

Is this discursive Yentling? A critical study of an RCMP officer’s interaction with a child sexual assault complainant

Christopher A. Smith

‘If she asked for settlement money, she must not be a real victim’: An interdisciplinary analysis of the discourse of victims and perpetrators of sexual violence

Huijae Yu