Legal Discourse Across Languages and Cultures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Legal Discourse Across Languages and Cultures write by Maurizio Gotti. This book was released on 2010. Legal Discourse Across Languages and Cultures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The chapters constituting this volume focus on legal language seen from cross-cultural perspectives, a topic which brings together two areas of research that have burgeoned in recent years, i.e. legal linguistics and intercultural studies, reflecting the rapidly changing, multifaceted world in which legal institutions and cultural/national identities interact. Within the broad thematic leitmotif of this volume, it has been possible to identify two major strands: legal discourse across languages on the one hand, and legal discourse across cultures on the other. Of course, labels of this kind are adopted partly as a matter of convenience, and it could be argued that any paper dealing with legal discourse across languages inevitably has to do with legal discourse across cultures. But a closer inspection of the papers comprising each of these two strands reveals that there is a coherent logic behind the choice of labels. All seven chapters in the first section are concerned with legal topics where more than one language is at stake, whereas all seven chapters in the second section are concerned with legal topics where cultural differences are brought to the fore.
Discourse Across Languages and Cultures
Discourse Across Languages and Cultures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Discourse Across Languages and Cultures write by Carol Lynn Moder. This book was released on 2004-08-31. Discourse Across Languages and Cultures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume brings together for the first time research by linguists working in cross-linguistic discourse analysis and by second language researchers working in the contrastive rhetoric tradition. The collection of articles by prominent authors and younger scholars encompasses a variety of research approaches and treats numerous naturally-occurring spoken and written genres, including conversations, narratives, academic expository writing, journalism, advertising, and professional promotional texts. Languages examined include English, Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew, Urdu, Dutch, Turkish and Serbo-Croatian. Taken individually and collectively, the articles in this collection draw important conclusions concerning the roles of cognition, multilingualism, communities of practice, and linguistic typology in shaping discourse within and across cultures.
Legal Discourse across Cultures and Systems
Legal Discourse across Cultures and Systems - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Legal Discourse across Cultures and Systems write by Vijay K. Bhatia. This book was released on 2008-01-01. Legal Discourse across Cultures and Systems available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What exactly is legal about legal language? What happens to legal language when it is used across linguistic, national, socio-political, cultural, and legal systems? In what way is generic integrity of legal documents maintained in multilingual and multicultural legal contexts? What happens when the same rule of law is applied across legal systems? By bringing together scholars and practitioners from more than ten countries, representing various jurisdictions, languages, and socio-political backgrounds, this book addresses these key issues arising from the differences in legal or sociocultural systems. The discussions are based not only on the analysis of the legal texts alone, but also on the factors shaping such constructions and interpretations. Given the increasing international need for accurate and authoritative translation and use of legal documents, this important volume has considerable contemporary relevance in a globalized economy. It will appeal to discourse analysts, commercial consultants, legal trainers, translators, and applied researchers in professional communication, especially in the field of legal writing and languages for specific purposes.
Language, Culture and the Law
Language, Culture and the Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language, Culture and the Law write by Vijay Kumar Bhatia. This book was released on 2008. Language, Culture and the Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The volume presents a set of invited papers based on analyses of legal discourse drawn from a number of international contexts where often the English language and legal culture has had to adjust to legal concepts very different from those of the English law system. Many of the papers were inspired by two major projects on legal language and inter-multiculturality: Generic Integrity in Legislative Discourse in Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts based in Hong Kong and carried out by an international team and Interculturality in Domain-specific English, a national project supported by the Italian Ministry for Education and Research, involving research units from five Italian universities
Comparative Legal Linguistics
Comparative Legal Linguistics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Comparative Legal Linguistics write by Heikki Mattila. This book was released on 2007-11-01. Comparative Legal Linguistics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The language of law reflects the overlapping, competing and co-existing nature of legal discourse: its form both the product of its linguistic history and a response to the fluidity of legal culture. This book examines legal language as a language for special purposes, evaluating the functions and characteristics of legal language and the terminology of law. Using examples drawn from major and lesser legal languages, it examines the major legal languages themselves, beginning with Latin through German, French and English. Each chapter includes a historical overview of the growth of the language, its international use, its coherence in the various countries using it and its relationship to cognate legal languages. Where relevant, the characteristics of legal cultures are described to explain the features of the legal language. The work will be a valuable resource for students, researchers and practitioners in the areas of comparative law, legal theory, semiotics, and linguistics.
