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Linguistics and Law

Name: Linguistics and Law
Brand: Routledge
SKU: 9781138326156
Price: 378.17 HKD
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Author: Jeffrey P. Kaplan
ISBN: 9781138326156

By Jeffrey P. Kaplan

Routledge September 2019

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ISBN-13: 9781138326156
Publisher: Routledge
Publication: September 2019
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Linguistics and Law offers a clear and concise introduction to making sense of the law through linguistics. Drawing on lexical semantics, syntax, and pragmatics to interpret both written and spoken laws, this book:

addresses how to interpret legal documents such as contracts, statutes, constitutional provisions and trademarks;
provides thorough analyses of spoken ‘language crimes’ including solicitation, threats and conspiracy as well as talk between police and criminal suspects, with special attention to the Miranda warning;
tackles the question of whether there is a ‘language’ of the law;
draws on real-life case studies to aid understanding and includes a list of annotated list of further reading at the end of each chapter.

Written in an approachable, conversational style and aimed at undergraduate students with little or no prior knowledge of linguistics or law, this book is essential reading for those approaching this topic for the first time.

Chapter One. Introduction.

Chapter Two. Detention and arrest.

Chapter Three. Miranda.

Chapter Four. Understanding recorded talk.

Chapter Five. Crimes of language (and one tort).

Chapter Six. The "language" of the law.

Chapter Seven. Contracts.

Chapter Eight Statutory and Constitutional Interpretation.　

Chapter Nine. Trademarks.

Chapter Ten. Conclusion.

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