LEADER 04153nam 2200769Ia 450 001 9910459053603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-73851-8 010 $a9786612738517 010 $a0-226-76789-2 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226767895 035 $a(CKB)2670000000035881 035 $a(EBL)574775 035 $a(OCoLC)656855931 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000421729 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11315509 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000421729 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10432866 035 $a(PQKB)11788620 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC574775 035 $a(DE-B1597)535848 035 $a(OCoLC)729018391 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226767895 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL574775 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10409371 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL273851 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000035881 100 $a19920723d1993 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe language of judges$b[electronic resource] /$fLawrence M. Solan 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$dc1993 215 $a1 online resource (232 p.) 225 1 $aLanguage and legal discourse 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-76790-6 311 $a0-226-76791-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction: Judging Language -- $t1. Chomsky and Cardow: Linguistics and the Law -- $t2. The Judge as Linguist -- $t3. Stacking the Deck -- $t4. When the Language Is Clear -- $t5. Too Much Precision -- $t6. Some Problems with Words: Trying to Understand the Constitution -- $t7. Why It Hasn't Gotten Any Better -- $tNotes -- $tTable of Cases -- $tIndex 330 $aSince many legal disputes are battles over the meaning of a statute, contract, testimony, or the Constitution, judges must interpret language in order to decide why one proposed meaning overrides another. And in making their decisions about meaning appear authoritative and fair, judges often write about the nature of linguistic interpretation. In the first book to examine the linguistic analysis of law, Lawrence M. Solan shows that judges sometimes inaccurately portray the way we use language, creating inconsistencies in their decisions and threatening the fairness of the judicial system. Solan uses a wealth of examples to illustrate the way linguistics enters the process of judicial decision making: a death penalty case that the Supreme Court decided by analyzing the use of adjectives in a jury instruction; criminal cases whose outcomes depend on the Supreme Court's analysis of the relationship between adverbs and prepositional phrases; and cases focused on the meaning of certain words in the Constitution. Solan finds that judges often describe our use of language poorly because there is no clear relationship between the principles of linguistics and the jurisprudential goals that the judge wishes to promote. A major contribution to the growing interdisciplinary scholarship on law and its social and cultural context, Solan's lucid, engaging book is equally accessible to linguists, lawyers, philosophers, anthropologists, literary theorists, and political scientists. 410 0$aLanguage and legal discourse. 606 $aAnalysis (Philosophy) 606 $aJudges$zUnited States$xLanguage 606 $aJudicial opinions$zUnited States$xLanguage 606 $aJudicial process$zUnited States 606 $aLaw$zUnited States$xLanguage 606 $aSemantics (Law) 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAnalysis (Philosophy) 615 0$aJudges$xLanguage. 615 0$aJudicial opinions$xLanguage. 615 0$aJudicial process 615 0$aLaw$xLanguage. 615 0$aSemantics (Law) 676 $a349.73/014 676 $a347.30014 700 $aSolan$b Lawrence$f1952-$0890507 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459053603321 996 $aThe language of judges$92288363 997 $aUNINA