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The Language of Lawyers: A European Perspective - Foundations in Language and Law

The Language of Lawyers: A European Perspective - Foundations in Language and Law

Author: Jacqueline Visconti
Publisher: De Gruyter Brill
ISBN: 9783111340753
Published In: November 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Germany ? Disclaimer:
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Clarity of court proceedings is increasingly considered essential to both the efficiency and the quality of a modern judiciary. One particularly under-researched area is the language of pleadings, i.e., texts written by lawyers representing the parties in court. Building on the results of the AttiChiari project, the first part of the book contains chapters on recent legal reforms and the language of Italian lawyers, while the second part includes chapters on the language of lawyers in Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Romania and the United Kingdom.

With contributions from leading experts in the field, the volume combines legal and linguistic expertise in equal measure, as well as a substantial body of practical reflections by civil and criminal lawyers. Having clarity of court proceedings as a unifying thread, the volume focuses on access to justice as a prerequisite for democracy and for a truly inclusive society.:

Introduction

Jacqueline Visconti

Part I: Lawyers’ pleadings in Italy

Concision and clarity in the structure of Italian pleadings: A comparative overview in a European perspective

Anna Barbano

The principle of clarity and conciseness of documents following the reform to the Code of Civil Procedure

Federico Ungaretti Dell’Immagine

Between civil trial rules and good writing advice

Ilaria Pagni

Le Mot Juste: Clear language as a “systemic” value, and the role of the lawyer

Serena Dentico and Giorgio Sobrino

The linguistic perspective

In the instant haze: Clarity and unclarity in lawyers’ pleadings

Riccardo Gualdo

Old and new rules for legal writing in Italy

Federigo Bambi

Language of the lawyer and language of the judge in court proceedings in Italy

Maria Vittoria Dell’Anna

Lexical variation in lawyers’ pleadings: Observations from the AttiChiari corpus

Laura Clemenzi

Writing clear pleadings: The contribution of punctuation

Giulia Lombardi

Tradition and innovation in the language of Italian pleadings: Anglicisms and Latinisms

Francesca Fusco

The IT perspective

New approaches to processing and modeling judicial corpora

Daniele Fusi

Insights from and on the bar

Composing pleadings (as in music)

Lelio della Pietra

Legal writing: Expectations, memories and a few things learned

Gaudenzia Brunello

The power of words, the choice of words: Inside and outside judicial proceedings

Angelica Scozia

Gender-based violence at trial: A new language for respecting human rights

Sabrina Lucantoni

Gonario Pinna: A lawyer in Sardinia

Guido Melis

Part II: Lawyers’ pleadings in Europe

The style of barristers’ submissions when defending a civil case in court: An outsider’s view on England and Wales

Silvia Ferreri

Sketches on English and Italian pleadings in civil procedure: Language, structure, style

Luca Passanante

Skeleton Arguments: Use and abuse

John Bowers and Hannah Hinton

Language variation in the written communication of German lawyers

Hannes Kniffka

Written pleadings in German civil trials

Eva Wiesmann

Defence proceedings in France: Between tradition and standardization?

Michel Cannarsa

Linguistic and discursive analysis of French legal writings for the defence

Margarete Flöter-Durr and Paulina Nowak-Korcz

From como mejor proceda to the first and second otrosí: The language of defence counsel in Spain

Miguel Ángel Campos-Pardillos

Portuguese defence proceedings and court applications: aiming for clarity and inclusiveness

Pierre Lejeune and Amália Mendes

The language and structure used in the defence statements of Flemish lawyers: An exploratory study

Karl Hendrickx, Henk Pander Maat and Raf Van Ransbeeck

The language of the defence: Communication in Finnish courts

Laura Ervo

The language of defence in criminal proceedings: The Polish perspective

Barbara Janusz-Pohl

The language of family court petitions and applications in Romania

Sorina Ciobanu

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