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Dimensions of Forensic Linguistics - 9789027205216

Un libro in lingua di Gibbons John (EDT) Turell M. Teresa (EDT) edito da John Benjamins Pub Co, 2008

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Fourteen essays are presented here by Gibbons (U. of Western Sydney, Australia) and Turell (U. Pompeu Fabra, Spain) for the purpose of demonstrating the multidisciplinary nature of forensic linguistics, understood in it broadest sense as the interface between language and law. The essays are divided into three parts, the first of which addresses the study of the language of the law through chapters on the development and nature of the language of regulation and legislation, challenges in teaching legal language, the problem of jury incomprehension of judicial instruction at the end of trials, and practical issues of legal translation. The next set of papers focus on the language of courts, discussing the linguistic differences between courtroom questions and everyday discourse, choices made between two or more languages in courtrooms in multilingual societies, the regulation of courtroom silence of the accused and witnesses in Common Law courts, linguistically challenged groups and the law, and Cantonese translation to English in Hong Kong superior courts. The remaining papers address linguistic evidence, including the authorship of written texts, the linguistic criteria defining trademarks, linguistic semantics and the definition of deception and fraud, and plagiarism. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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