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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460728803321

Titolo

Speaking of language and law : conversations on the work of Peter Tiersma / / edited by Lawrence M. Solan, Janet Ainsworth, and Roger W. Shuy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-19-049266-X

0-19-933419-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Collana

Oxford Studies in Language and Law

Disciplina

340/.14

Soggetti

Law - Language

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Among the most prominent scholars of language and law is Peter Tiersma, a law professor at Loyola Law School with a doctorate in linguistics (co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law). Tiersma's significant body of work traverses a variety of legal and linguistic fields. This book offers a selection of twelve of Tiersma's most influential publications, divided into five thematic areas that are critical to both law and linguistics: Language and Law as a Field of Inquiry, Legal Language and its History, Language and Civil Liability, Language and Criminal Justice, and Jury Instruction