Law, Language and Communication
About the Book Series
This series encourages innovative and integrated perspectives within and across the boundaries of law, language and communication, with particular emphasis on issues of communication in specialized socio-legal and professional contexts. It seeks to bring together a range of diverse yet cumulative research traditions related to these fields in order to identify and encourage interdisciplinary research. The series welcomes proposals - both edited collections as well as single authored monographs - emphasizing critical approaches to law, language and communication, identifying and discussing issues, proposing solutions to problems, offering analyses in areas such as legal construction, interpretation, translation and de-codification.
Anne Wagner is Professor of Legal Semiotics and Research Professor at Centre de Recherche Droits & Perspectives du Droit, équipe René Demogue, Lille University, France. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law (Springer) and President of the International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law. She has been awarded the National Research Grant for her research career. Her main research interests include semiotics, verbal and non-verbal sign system analyses, language and law, legal culture and heritage, legal translation, legal terminology, and legal discourse studies.
Vijay K. Bhatia, formerly Professor of English, City University of Hong Kong, is now Adjunct Professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Visiting Professor at the Hellenic American University, Athens (Greece). He is also the founding President of the Languages for Specific Purposes and Professional Communication Association for Asia-Pacific. His research interests include Critical Genre Analysis, academic and professional discourses in legal, business, newspaper, and promotional contexts; ESP and Professional Communication; simplification of legal and other public documents; intercultural and cross-disciplinary variations in professional genres.
Research Methods in Legal Translation and Interpreting: Crossing Methodological Boundaries
1st Edition
Edited
By Łucja Biel, Jan Engberg, Rosario Martín Ruano, Vilelmini Sosoni
December 18, 2020
The field of Legal translation and interpreting has strongly expanded over recent years. As it has developed into an independent branch of Translation Studies, this book advocates for a substantiated discussion of methods and methodology, as well as knowledge about the variety of approaches ...
Social Media in Legal Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Vijay Bhatia, Girolamo Tessuto
February 24, 2022
There are multiple aspects of electronically-mediated communication that influence and have strong implications for legal practice. This volume focuses on three major aspects of mediated communication through social media. Part I examines social media and the legal community. It explores how this ...
International Arbitration Discourse and Practices in Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Vijay K. Bhatia, Maurizio Gotti, Azirah Hashim, Philip Koh, Sundra Rajoo
August 14, 2020
International business exchanges between and with Asian countries have increased enormously over the last few years. As a natural consequence, this has brought about an increasing number of trade disputes that are being resolved through arbitration as an effective alternative to more expensive ...
Fiction and the Languages of Law: Understanding Contemporary Legal Discourse
1st Edition
By Karen Petroski
June 30, 2020
Contemporary legal reasoning has more in common with fictional discourse than we tend to realize. Through an examination of the U.S. Supreme Court’s written output during a recent landmark term, this book exposes many of the parallels between these two special kinds of language use. Focusing on ...
Human Rights and the Body: Hidden in Plain Sight
1st Edition
By Annabelle Mooney
June 30, 2020
Human Rights and the Body is a response to the crisis in human rights, to the very real concern that without a secure foundation for the concept of human rights, their very existence is threatened. While there has been consideration of the discourses of human rights and the way in which the body is...
Legal Certainty in Multilingual EU Law: Language, Discourse and Reasoning at the European Court of Justice
1st Edition
By Elina Paunio
June 30, 2020
How can multilingualism and legal certainty be reconciled in EU law? Despite the importance of multilingualism for the European project, it has attracted only limited attention from legal scholars. This book provides a valuable contribution to this otherwise neglected area. Whilst firmly situated ...
Legal Interpretation in International Commercial Arbitration
1st Edition
By Joanna Jemielniak
June 30, 2020
This book fills a gap in legal academic study and practice in International Commercial Arbitration (ICA) by offering an in-depth analysis on legal discourse and interpretation. Written by a specialist in international business law, arbitration and legal theory, it examines the discursive framework ...
Shari`a in the Secular State: Evolving Meanings of Islamic Jurisprudence in Turkey
1st Edition
By Russell Powell
June 30, 2020
Words in both law and religion can shape power relationships and are often highly disputed. Shari`a lies within the overlap of these two spheres and provides a unique subject for the study of meaning in that liminal space. This book contributes important insights related to Islamic jurisprudence ...
Synesthetic Legalities: Sensory Dimensions of Law and Jurisprudence
1st Edition
Edited
By Sarah Marusek
June 30, 2020
Synesthesia is the phenomenon where sensual perceptions are joined together as a combined experience – that is, the ability to feel color, hear the visual, or even smell emotion. These types of unions expand the normativity of our legal thinking, as the abilities to represent the tethering of ...
The Utopian Human Right to Science and Culture: Toward the Philosophy of Excendence in the Postmodern Society
1st Edition
By Anna Maria Andersen Nawrot
June 30, 2020
This book explores the question of whether the ideal right to science and culture exists. It proposes that the human right to science and culture is of a utopian character and argues for the necessity of the existence of such a right by developing a philosophical project situated in postmodernity, ...
Phraseology in Legal and Institutional Settings: A Corpus-based Interdisciplinary Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Stanislaw Goźdź-Roszkowski, Gianluca Pontrandolfo
July 25, 2019
This volume presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of major developments in the study of how phraseology is used in a wide range of different legal and institutional contexts. This recent interest has been mainly sparked by the development of corpus linguistics research, which has both ...
Multilingual Law: A Framework for Analysis and Understanding
1st Edition
By Colin D Robertson
May 11, 2018
This book introduces and explores the concept of multilingual law. Providing an overview as to what is 'multilingual law', the study establishes a new discourse based on this concept, which has hitherto lacked recognition for reasons of complexity and multidisciplinarity. The need for such a ...