Lectures on Legal Linguistics

✍ Scribed by Marcus Galdia

• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 612
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book describes law from the perspective of its language. The author proposes a theory of the legal language as language used in legally relevant communicational situations. He focuses on legal-linguistic operations such as legal argumentation and legal interpretation that steer the legal discourse.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents in Brief
Detailed Contents
Abbreviations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part 1: Introducing Legal Linguistics
1.1 Preliminary Questions
1.1.1 Are laws made with words?
1.1.2 Interdisciplinary aspirations
1.1.3 Some legal-linguistic narratives
1.1.4 Tasks of legal science
1.1.4.1 Systematization in law
1.1.4.2 Other legal-linguistically relevant criteria
1.1.4.3 Knowledge of the subject matter and knowledge of law
1.2 Pragmatics for Lawyers
1.2.1 Pragmatic preferences
1.2.2 What is pragmatics about?
1.2.3 Pragmatic notions 1.2.4 How pragmatics operates in legal contexts1.2.5 Environment of pragmatics
1.2.6 Pragmatic vs. semantic theories of legal language
1.2.7 Extension of the concept of semantics
1.2.8 Is there more than language in law?
1.2.9 Which conception of language to choose?
1.2.10 Language in pragmatic perspective
1.2.11 Linguistic turn in law
1.3 Morals for Lawyers
1.3.1 Law without morals?
1.3.2 Some examples of morals in law
1.3.3 What is the place of law in our life?
1.3.4 Why law matters although it is not omnipotent?
1.3.5 Material ethics and formal ethics 1.3.5.1 Science shows the way?1.3.5.2 Establishing rules for social dialogue
1.3.5.3 Professional ethics for lawyers
1.3.5.4 Volatility in law
1.3.6 How to trace ethics in law?
1.4 An Introduction Must End
Part 2: Language and Law
2.1 Foundations of Legal Linguistics
2.1.1 Language and Law
2.1.2 The search for the name
2.1.3 Legal linguistics in the world
2.1.3.1 Some tendencies and developments in Europe
2.1.3.2 Legal terminology and discourse in France
2.1.3.3 Polish legal theory and legal linguistics
2.1.3.4 Approaches to legal Russian in Russia and abroad 2.1.3.5 Greek legal linguistics2.1.3.6 Legal theory and legal language in Scandinavia
2.1.3.6.1 Heikki E.S. Mattila's comparative legal linguistics
2.1.3.7 Diversity of legal Chinese and understandability of legal Japanese
2.1.3.8 Tendency toward rationalization of language use in the USA
2.1.3.9 A note on Latin America
2.1.3.10 A glimpse of Africa
2.1.3.11 Particular and international research
2.1.4 Conceptions of Legal Linguistics
2.1.4.1 Legal linguistics as semiotics of law
2.1.4.1.1 E. Bülow's semiotic conception of legal linguistics 2.1.4.2 Legal linguistics as hermeneutics of law2.1.4.3 Legal linguistics as introduction into law
2.1.4.4 Legal linguistics as part of comparative law
2.1.4.5 Legal linguistics as forensic linguistics
2.1.4.6 Legal linguistics as interlingual comparison
2.1.5 What is legal linguistics and what it is not?
2.1.5.1 Legal linguistics is not philology
2.1.5.2 Legal linguistics is not philosophy of law
2.1.5.3 Legal linguistics is not sociology of law (and not legal anthropology)
2.1.5.4 Legal linguistics is not law
2.1.5.5 Legal linguistics is not legal doctrine