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Speaking of Language and Law: Conversations on the Work of Peter Tiersma

By Roger W. Shuy , Lawrence Solan , Janet Ainsworth

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
0199334188, 9780199334186
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1376337 bytes)
Series
Oxford Studies in Language and Law
Edition
1
Pages
328\329
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-09-11 00:20:07
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Description

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 Instructions. Each paper is accompanied by a brief commentary from a leading scholar in the field, offering a substantive conversation about the ramifications of Tiersma's work and the disagreements that have often surrounded it.

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