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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823797903321

Titolo

Legal pragmatics / / edited by Dennis Kurzon, Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2018]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 pages)

Collana

Pragmatics & beyond new series ; ; Volume 288

Disciplina

340.14

Soggetti

Semantics (Law)

Speech acts (Linguistics)

Law - Language

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Dennis Kurzon and Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky -- Pleading for life : narrative patterns within legal petitions (Salem, 1692) / Kathleen L. Doty -- "How came you not to cry out?" : pragmatic effects of negative questioning in child rape trials in the Old Bailey proceedings, 1730-1798 / Alison J. Johnson -- Implicatures in early modern English courtroom records / Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky -- Literal interpretation and political expediency : the case of Thomas More / Dennis Kurzon -- Making legal language clear to legal laypersons / Sol Azuelos-Atias -- Interpreting or in legal texts / Jacqueline Visconti -- The nature of power and control in the interrogative patterns of selected nigerian courtroom discourse / Oluwasola A. Aina, Anthony Elisha Anowu and Tunde Olusola Opeibi -- The language of Egyptian interrogations : a study of suspects' resistance to implicatures and presuppositions in prosecution questions / Neveen Al Saeed -- Achieving influence through negotiation : an argument for developing pragmatic awareness / Dawn Archer, Rebecca Smithson and Ian Kennedy -- "I really don't know because I'm stupid" : unpacking suggestibility in investigative interviews / Ikuko Nakane -- On the balance between invariance and context-dependence : legal concepts and their environments / Tarja Salmi-Tolonen -- Contextuality of interpretation in non-monolingual jurisdictions : the Canadian experience / Diana Yankova.