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Speaking of language and law : conversations on the work of Peter Tiersma /

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 o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tiersma, Peter Meijes (Autor)
Otros Autores: Solan, Lawrence, 1952- (Editor ), Ainsworth, Janet (Editor ), Shuy, Roger W. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Colección:Oxford studies in language and law.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Excerpt from a history of the languages of law (in the Ooxford handbook of language and law) / Peter M. Tiersma
  • Excerpt from legal language / Peter M. Tiersma
  • Excerpt from parchment, paper, pixels / Peter M. Tiersma
  • Excerpt from some myths about legal language / Peter M. Tiersma
  • On the relationship between legal and ordinary language / Frederick Schauer
  • Legal language and its history : quo imus? qua imus? / Ronald R. Butters
  • Philosophical hermeneutics in the age of pixels : Hans-Georg Gadamer, Peter Tiersma, and Dasein in the age of the internet / Frank S. Ravitch
  • The language of lawyers and the language of plumbers / Edward Finegan
  • Words, words, words : but what's in a text? / Dieter Stein
  • Excerpt from parchment, paper, pixels / Peter M. Tiersma
  • Excerpt from reassessing unilateral contracts / Peter M. Tiersma
  • Philosophy of language, unilateral contracts, and the law / Brian H. Bix
  • How to do legal things with words : the contracts scholarship of Peter Tiersma / Sidney W. DeLong
  • Tiersma contra mundum in defence of promises / Peter Goodrich
  • Formalism, speech acts, and the realities of contract formation / Jeffrey M. Lipshaw
  • Excerpts from the language of silence / Peter M. Tiersma
  • Excerpt from nonverbal communication and the freedom of speech / Peter M. Tiersma
  • Law's metalinguistics : silence, speech, and action / Elizabeth Mertz
  • The sounds of silence / Malcolm Coulthard
  • Speech or silence : within and beyond language and law / Meizhen Liao
  • Excerpt from the language of consent in rape law (in Janet Cotterill (ed.), The language of sexual crime (p. 91-97) / Peter M. Tiersma
  • "Inferring" consent in the context of rape and sexual assault / Susan Ehrlich
  • Felicitous consent / Tim Grant & Kerrie Spaul
  • Reflections on Peter Tiersma's "the language and consent in rape law" / Gregory M. Matoesian
  • Speaking of consent / Gail Stygall
  • Excerpt from the language of defamation / Peter M. Tiersma
  • Defamation as speech act: a theory that works / John M. Conley
  • Applyhing Tiersm'a defamation theory to defamation cases / Roger W. Shuy
  • Scarlet letter or badge of honour? : semantic interpretation in changing contexts of culture / Krzysztof Kredens
  • Excerpt from parchment, paper, pixels (p. 169-176, starting with "dynamic statutes") / Peter M. Tiersma
  • Excerpt from the textualization of precedent (p. 1187-89, 1257-62) / Peter M. Tiersma
  • Talk about text as text / Lawrence M. Solan
  • Textualization, textualism, and purpose-stating preambles / Jeffrey P. Kaplan
  • Between paper and pixels : how the form of modern laws changed their function / Dru Stevenso
  • Except from the language of perjury : "literal truth," ambiguity, and the false statement requirement / Peter M. Tiersma
  • "Threats" (from speaking of crime (p. 198-204) / Lawrence M. Solan and Peter M. Tiersma
  • How we play games with words in the law / Janet Ainsworth
  • Toward a communicative approach to law- and rule-making / Philip Gaines
  • Threats : a pragmalinguistic approach to the analysis of a speech crime / Susan Berk-Seligson
  • Except from the judge as linguist / Peter M. Tiersma
  • Applied (forensic) linguistics in autochthonic and allochthonic use / Hannes Kniffka
  • The sound of silence : Miranda waivers, selective literalism and social context / Richard A. Leo
  • Words alone / Laurie L. Levenson
  • Sizzling irons : speaking of criminal justice / Frances Rock
  • Excerpt from the rocky road to legal reform / Peter M. Tiersma
  • Excerpt from legal language / Peter M. Tiersma
  • Navigating the rocky road / Bethany K. Dumas
  • Authority and accommodation : judicial responses to jurors' questions / Chris Heffer
  • Jury instructions written for jurors : a perennial challenge / Nancy S. Marder
  • Bibliography of Peter Tiersma's work.