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Handbuch Sprache im Recht
[Handbook of Language in Law]
Ed. by Felder, Ekkehard / Vogel, Friedemann
Series:Handbücher Sprachwissen (HSW) 12
DE GRUYTER MOUTON
- eBook (PDF)
- Publication Date:
- May 2017
- Copyright year:
- 2017
- ISBN
- 978-3-11-029619-8
Overview
- A compendium of legal linguistics
- Language and law in the context of judiciary, legislature, executive, legal science, forensics, and lay-expert relations
- A reference work and introduction for linguists and scholars of the law and social sciences
Aims and Scope
The Handbook of Language in Law documents the textual and communicative processes of setting standards in the law. Its focus is on the legal explication of meaning, as examined from the perspectives of the courts, the legislature, the executive, and legal science. For the first time, it provides linguists, legal scholars, and social scientists with an introductory compendium on the theory, empiricism, and methodology of legal linguistics.
Details
- xix, 570 pages
- DE GRUYTER MOUTON
- Language:
- German
- Type of Publication:
- Reference Work
- Keyword(s):
- Forensic Linguistics; Legal Linguistics; Language and the Law
- Readership:
- Academics (Linguistics, Legal Studies, Social Sciences), Institutes
- Subjects
- Law > Law, other
- Linguistics and Semiotics > Applied Linguistics > Applied Linguistics, other
- Linguistics and Semiotics > Levels of Linguistic Analysis > Discourse
- Social Sciences > Communication Science > Group and Organizational Communication
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