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Title: Language and the Law: International Outlooks

Language and the Law: International Outlooks

by Krzysztof Kredens (Volume editor) Stanislaw Gozdz-Roszkowski (Volume editor)
©2008 Edited Collection 440 Pages
Linguistics
Series: Lodz Studies in Language, Volume 16

Summary

Scholarship in language and the law is these days developing at an unprecedented rate, as the academic presence and social impact of the field are becoming more and more significant in an ever growing number of national environments. This collection offers a glimpse into the work of scholars investigating the ways in which legal substance intersects with language description in a variety of legal and linguistic systems worldwide. The 23 contributions from linguists and lawyers working in 19 countries on five continents investigate aspects of multilingualism, legal translation and interpreting, legal and courtroom discourse, statutory interpretation, police interviews, trade name semantics and forensic linguistics.

Details

Pages
440
Year
2008
ISBN (Softcover)
9783631574478
Language
English
Keywords
Rechtssprache Mehrsprachigkeit forensic linguistics multilingualism legal translation and interpreting Aufsatzsammlung legal discourse
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2007. 440 pp., num. fig. and tables

Biographical notes

Krzysztof Kredens (Volume editor) Stanislaw Gozdz-Roszkowski (Volume editor)

The Editors: Krzysztof Kredens received his M.A. in English Studies and Ph.D. in English Linguistics from the University of Łódź (Poland). He is now a Lecturer in Applied Linguistics in the School of Languages and Social Sciences at Aston University (UK). His main academic interests are in forensic linguistics and social applications of linguistics including legal translation and community interpreting. Stanisław Goźdź-Roszkowski holds an M.A. in English Studies and Ph.D. in English Linguistics from the University of Łódź (Poland), where he lectures on English Language and Linguistics. His research interests are primarily in corpus-based analysis of legal texts and also include register variation, genre analysis, LSP phraseology, and specialist translation and terminology.

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