| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Editors' Introduction -- Part I Sui generis or Socially Problematic: The Character of Legal Language -- 1 The Unspoken Language of the Law -- 2 Seeing Sense: The Complexity of Key Words That Tell Us What Law Is -- 3 Hiding in Plain Sight: The Category of Ordinary Language and the Case Law Domain of Transgender Marriage -- Part II Imperfect Fit between Legal Categories and Social Discourse -- 4 Effects of Translation on the Invisible Power Wielded by Language in the Legal Sphere: The Case of Nepal -- 5 The Language of Film and the Representation of Legal Subjectivity in Juno Mak's Rigor Mortis -- Part III Written in Silence: Hidden Social Meanings in Legal Discourse -- 6 Let the Fingers Do the Talking: Language, Gesture and Power in Closing Argument -- 7 Questions about Questioning: Courtroom Practice in China and the United States -- 8 Law, Language and Community Sentiment: Behind Hate Speech Doctrine in India -- Part IV Conflict between Linguistic and Legal Ideologies -- 9 When Voices Fail to Carry: Voice Projection and the Case of the 'Dumb' Jury -- 10 Ideology and Political Meaning in Legal Translation -- Part V Demands of Law and Limits of Language -- 11 Law and the Grammar of Judgment -- 12 Legal Indeterminacy in the Spoken Word -- Afterword -- 13 The Said of the Unsaid -- Index |
| Summary |
A new perspective on how far law's power derives from socially situated communication rather than from abstract rules |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 12, 2018) |
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Law -- Language.
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LAW -- Essays.
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LAW -- General Practice.
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LAW -- Jurisprudence.
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LAW -- Paralegals & Paralegalism.
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LAW -- Practical Guides.
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LAW -- Reference.
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Law -- Language.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Leung, Janny H. C., editor
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Durant, Alan, editor
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| ISBN |
9781108378185 |
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1108378188 |
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9781316285756 |
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1316285758 |
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9781107533158 |
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1107533155 |
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