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Speaking of Language and Law

Speaking of Language and Law Conversations on the Work of Peter Tiersma

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  • Publisher: Oxford University Press USA
  • ISBN: 9780199334186
  • Published In: September 2015
  • Format: Hardback
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    • Includes a selection of twelve of Peter Tiersma's most influential publications
    • Offers substantive conversation about the ramifications of Tiersma's work from leading scholars in the field
    • Considers five thematic areas of Tiersma's work that are critical to both law and linguistics

    Among the most prominent scholars of language and law is Peter Tiersma, a law professor at Loyola Law School with a doctorate in linguistics (co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law). Tiersma's significant body of work traverses a variety of legal and linguistic fields. This book offers a selection of twelve of Tiersma's most influential publications, divided into five thematic areas that are critical to both law and linguistics: Language and Law as a Field of Inquiry, Legal Language and its History, Language and Civil Liability, Language and Criminal Justice, and Jury Instructions. Each paper is accompanied by a brief commentary from a leading scholar in the field, offering a substantive conversation about the ramifications of Tiersma's work and the disagreements that have often surrounded it.

     

    Readership: Linguistics and lawyers, especially forensic linguists and lawyers with an interest in language.

  • Acknowledgements
    Contributors
    Preface
    Part I
    Legal Language and Its History
    1. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from A History of the Languages of Law (in The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law)
    2. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from Legal Language
    3. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from Parchment, Paper, Pixels
    4. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from Some Myths about Legal Language
    5. Frederick Schauer, On the Relationship Between Legal and Ordinary Language
    6. Ronald R. Butters, Legal Language and its History: Quo Imus? Qua Imus?
    7. Frank S. Ravitch, Philosophical Hermeneutics in the Age of Pixels: Hans-Georg Gadamer, Peter Tiersma, and Dasein in the Age of the Internet
    8. Edward Finegan, The Language of Lawyers and the Language of Plumbers
    9. Dieter Stein, Words, Words, Words - But What's in a Text?
    Part II
    The Language of Contracts and Wills
    10. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from Parchment, Paper, Pixels
    11. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from Reassessing Unilateral Contracts
    12. Brian H. Bix, Philosophy of Language, Unilateral Contracts, and the Law
    13. Sidney W. DeLong, How to do Legal Things with Words: The Contracts Scholarship of Peter Tiersma
    14. Peter Goodrich, Tiersma Contra Mundum In Defence Of Promises
    15. Jeffrey M. Lipshaw, Formalism, Speech Acts, and The Realities Of Contract Formation
    Part III
    Speech and Action
    The Meanings of Silence in Law
    16. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpts from The Language of Silence
    17. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from Nonverbal Communication and the Freedom of Speech
    18. Elizabeth Mertz, Law's Metalinguistics: Silence, Speech, and Action
    19. Malcolm Coulthard, The Sounds of Silence
    20. Meizhen Liao, Speech or Silence: Within and Beyond Language and Law
    Consenting
    21. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt fromThe Language of Consent in Rape Law (In Janet Cotterill (ed.), The Language of Sexual Crime (pp. 91-97)
    22. Susan Ehrlich, 'Inferring' Consent in the Context of Rape and Sexual Assault
    23. Tim Grant & Kerrie Spaul, Felicitous Consent
    24. Gregory M. Matoesian, Reflections on Peter Tiersma's <"The Language and Consent in Rape Law>"
    25. Gail Stygall, Speaking of Consent
    Defaming
    26. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from The Language of Defamation
    27. John M. Conley, Defamation as Speech Act: A Theory that Works
    28. Roger W. Shuy, Applying Tiersma's Defamation Theory to Defamation Cases
    29. Krzysztof Kredens, Scarlet Letter or Badge of Honour? Semantic Interpretation in Changing Contexts of Culture
    Part IV
    Interpreting Laws
    30. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from Parchment, Paper, Pixels (pp. 169-176, starting with "Dynamic Statutes")
    31. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from The Textualization of Precedent (pp. 1187-89, 1257-62).
    32. Lawrence M. Solan, Talk About Text as Text
    33. Jeffrey P. Kaplan, Textualization, Textualism, and Purpose-Stating Preambles
    34. Dru Stevenson, Between Paper and Pixels - How the Form of Modern Laws Changed their Function
    Part V
    Language and Criminal Justice
    Crimes of Language
    35. Peter M. Tiersma, Except from The Language of Perjury: <"Literal Truth,>" Ambiguity, and the False Statement Requirement
    36. Lawrence M. Solan and Peter M. Tiersma, <"Threats>" (from Speaking of Crime (pp. 198-204)
    37. Janet Ainsworth, How We Play Games with Words in the Law
    38. Philip Gaines, Toward a Communicative Approach to Law- and Rule-Making
    39. Susan Berk-Seligson, Threats: A Pragmalinguistic Approach to the Analysis of a Speech Crime
    Criminal Justice and Everyday Speech 
    40. Peter M. Tiersma, Except from The Judge as Linguist
    41. Hannes Kniffka, Applied (Forensic) Linguistics in Autochthonic and Allochthonic Use
    42. Richard A. Leo, The Sound of Silence: Miranda Waivers, Selective Literalism and Social Context
    43. Laurie L. Levenson, Words Alone
    44. Frances Rock, Sizzling Irons: Speaking of Criminal Justice
    Part VI
    Jury Instructions
    45. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from The Rocky Road to Legal Reform
    46. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from Legal Language
    47. Bethany K. Dumas, Navigating the Rocky Road
    48. Chris Heffer, Authority and Accommodation: Judicial Responses to Jurors' Questions
    49. Nancy S. Marder, Jury Instructions Written for Jurors: A Perennial Challenge
    Bibliography of Peter Tiersma's Work

  • Peter Tiersma, Professor of Law, Loyola Law School, Edited by Lawrence Solan, Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School, Edited by Janet Ainsworth, Professor of Law, Seattle University School of Law, and Edited byRoger W. Shuy, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, Georgetown University

     

     

    Peter Tiersma is Professor of Law at Loyola Law School.

    Lawrence Solan is Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School.

    Janet Ainsworth is Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law.

    Roger W. Shuy is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University.

     

    Contributors: 
    Janet Ainsworth
    Susan Berk-Seligson
    Brian H. Bix
    Ronald R. Butters
    John M. Conley
    Malcolm Coulthard
    Sidney W. DeLong
    Bethany K. Dumas
    Susan Ehrlich
    Edward Finegan 
    Philip Gaines
    Peter Goodrich
    Tim Grant
    Chris Heffer
    Jeffrey P. Kaplan
    Hannes Kniffka
    Krzysztof Kredens
    Richard A. Leo
    Laurie L. Levenson
    Meizhen Liao
    Jeffrey M. Lipshaw
    Nancy S. Marder
    Gregory M. Matoesian
    Elizabeth Mertz
    Frank S. Ravitch
    Frances Rock
    Frederick Schauer
    Roger W. Shuy
    Lawrence M. Solan 
    Kerrie Spaul
    Dieter Stein
    Dru Stevenson
    Gail Stygall
    Peter M. Tiersma

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