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Die Sprache des Rechts

Studien der interdisziplinären Arbeitsgruppe Sprache des Rechts der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

Edited by: Kent D. Lerch
On behalf of: der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

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This series of documents is a compendium of the current status of knowledge about the language of law. The most important approaches of well-known protagonists in the field of forensic linguistics are compiled, surveyed and discussed in detail.

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Kent D. Lerch ist Koordinator der interdisziplinären Arbeitsgruppe "Sprache des Rechts" an der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Book Print Only 2004

Recht verstehen

Verständlichkeit, Missverständlichkeit und Unverständlichkeit von Recht

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This volume presents a collection of systematically linked contributions by expert linguists, lawyers, and writers on the problems of understanding legal language, on the methodology of empirically measuring the comprehensibility of texts, and on the opportunities for transdisciplinary co-operation between lawyers and linguists.

ISBN:: 9783110181425
Subject:: Law
Subject:: Law, other
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Quantitative, Computational, and Corpus Linguistics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Print Only 2005

Recht verhandeln

Argumentieren, Begründen und Entscheiden im Diskurs des Rechts

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The contributions in this volume explore the pragmatic side of legal argumentation, for example, the composition of a courtroom speech or certain persuasive techniques, using the instruments of modern communication and speech act theories.

ISBN:: 9783110183986
Subject:: Law
Subject:: Law, other
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Quantitative, Computational, and Corpus Linguistics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Print Only 2005

Recht vermitteln

Strukturen, Formen und Medien der Kommunikation im Recht

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The contributions in this volume develop an innovative 'media theory of law', which is based on the assumption that the forms and content of legal communication are constitutively associated with the media of legal communication.

ISBN:: 9783110184006
Subject:: Law
Subject:: Law, other
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter