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Language and Law

Name: Language and Law
Brand: Palgrave Macmillan
SKU: 9781137017949
Price: 415.87 HKD
Availability: InStock
Author: Annabelle Mooney
ISBN: 9781137017949

By Annabelle Mooney

Palgrave Macmillan_ March 2014

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9781137017949
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan_
Publication: March 2014
Format: Paperback , 224 pages
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

hat is legal language and where is it found? What does a forensic linguist do? How can linguistic skills help legal professionals?

We are constantly surrounded by legal language, but sometimes it is almost impossible to understand. Providing extracts from real-life legal cases, this highly usable and accessible textbook brims with helpful examples and activities that will help you to navigate this area.

Language and Law:
• introduces useful linguistic concepts and tools
• outlines the methods linguists employ to analyse legal language and language in legal situations
• includes topics on such as: written legal language; threats, warnings and speech act theory; courtroom interactions and the work linguists do to help solve crimes; physical and 'spoken' signs; and the creativity of legal language

Introduction
1. Finding the Language
2. The Language of Law
3. Don't Do it!
4. That's Not What I Meant
5. The Trials of Language
6. Different Language Different Rules
7. The CSI Effect?
8. The Pen is Mighty
9. Once Upon a Time
10. Signs in Time and Space
Coda
References
Index

About the Author

Annabelle Mooney is a Reader in Sociolinguistics, Department of Media, Culture and Language at the University of Roehampton, UK. Her research concerns language and the law, and she is currently working on human rights.

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