LEADER 05537nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910780805803321 005 20230721025220.0 010 $a1-282-45688-1 010 $a9786612456886 010 $a3-11-021839-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110218398 035 $a(CKB)2550000000000155 035 $a(EBL)476038 035 $a(OCoLC)593274809 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000337815 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11278489 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000337815 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10294358 035 $a(PQKB)11167383 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC476038 035 $a(DE-B1597)36162 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110218398 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL476038 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10359403 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL245688 035 $a(OCoLC)719450835 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000000155 100 $a20111018d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aFormal linguistics and law$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Gu?nther Grewendorf, Monika Rathert 210 $aBerlin ;$aNew York $cMouton de Gruyter$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (448 p.) 225 1 $aTrends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;$v212 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-11-021838-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aLanguage and law : new applications of formal linguistics / Gu?nther Grewendorf and Monika Rathert -- Law matters, syntax matters and semantics matters / Carl Vogel -- Improving the comprehensibility of German court decisions / Stella Neumann -- Understanding a Riester-pension : a reply to Becker and Klein (2008) / Monika Rathert -- Forensic phonetics and the influence of speaking style on global measures of fundamental frequency / Michael Jessen -- Phonetic cues to speaker age : a longitudinal study / Angelika Braun and Stefan Friebis -- Does speech reveal one's age? : on the use of gerontolinguistic topics for forensic authorship analysis / Jan Seifert -- Definition extraction from court decisions using computational linguistic technology / Stephan Walter -- Making sense of legal texts / Emile de Maat, Radboud Winkels, and Tom van Engers -- Interfacing between different legal systems using the examples of N-Lex and EUR-Lex / Doris Liebwald -- The LOIS project and beyond / Erich Schweighofer -- Multilingualism in the European Union : status quo and perspectives : the reference language model / Karin Luttermann -- Drafting and interpretation of EU law--paradoxes of legal multilingualism / Agnieszka Doczekalska -- Multilingual law drafting in Switzerland / Andreas Lo?tscher -- A modular approach to legal drafting and translation / Jacqueline Visconti. 330 $aThis volume explores new interfaces between linguistics and jurisprudence. Its theoretical and methodological importance lies in showing that many questions asked within the field of language and law receive satisfactory answers from formal linguistics. The book starts with a paper by the two editors in which they explain why the volume - as a whole and with its individual papers - is an innovation in the field of language and law. In addition, an overview about the most important research projects on language and law is given. The first chapter of the book is on understanding the law. Jurists and laypersons always ask for the precise meaning of a certain piece of the law. In linguistics, the discipline investigating 'meaning' is semantics; thus, it is to be expected that semantics can contribute to a correct understanding of the law. Chapter 1 also investigates the alleged incomprehensibility of legal language with the help of psycholinguistics. Chapter 2 is on identifying the criminal. To find the author of a blackmailer's letter, text/ corpus linguistics is instrumental. If the blackmailer uses the telephone instead of the letter, speaker identification and phonetics are necessary. The BKA stores all blackmailing letters in a database, but databases are only one possibility of organizing legal systems; another possibility is the application of tools from computational linguistics and artificial intelligence. These tools can be useful to handle terminology, to retrieve information, or to model legal theorizing in a formal system. Chapter 3 demonstrates a variety of examples of organizing legal systems. The topic of chapter 4 is multilingualism and the law. The European legislation is a product of legal and linguistic diversity, as the member states do not only differ in languages but also in their legal systems. One paper shows how Switzerland handles its multilingualism in legal drafting. The input of translation studies is of course vital in this field of research. An index for both subjects and persons complements the volume. 410 0$aTrends in linguistics.$pStudies and monographs ;$v212. 606 $aLaw$xLanguage 606 $aLaw$xInterpretation and construction 610 $aApplied Linguistics. 610 $aCorpus Linguistics. 610 $aLanguage and Law. 615 0$aLaw$xLanguage. 615 0$aLaw$xInterpretation and construction. 676 $a340/.14 701 $aGrewendorf$b Gu?nther$0162368 701 $aRathert$b Monika$f1972-$01465929 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780805803321 996 $aFormal linguistics and law$93701239 997 $aUNINA