Formal Linguistics and Law /

Formal Linguistics and Law / / ed. by Günther Grewendorf, Monika Rathert.

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This 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 editor...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Braun, Angelika,
Doczekalska, Agnieszka,
Engers, Tom,
Friebis, Stefan,
Grewendorf, Günther,
Jessen, Michael,
Liebwald, Doris,
Luttermann, Karin,
Lötscher, Andreas,
Maat, Emile,
Neumann, Stella,
Rathert, Monika,
Schweighofer, Erich,
Seifert, Jan,
Visconti, Jacqueline,
Vogel, Carl,
Walter, Stephan,
Winkels, Radboud,
HerausgeberIn:
Grewendorf, Günther,
Rathert, Monika,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 212
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Physical Description:1 online resource (435 p.) :; Figs. and tabs.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of contributors
  • Language and Law – new applications of formal linguistics
  • Part 1. Understanding the law: The contribution of semantics and psycholinguistics
  • Law matters, syntax matters and semantics matters
  • Improving the comprehensibility of German court decisions
  • Understanding a Riester-pension: A reply to Becker and Klein (2008)
  • Part 2. Identifying the criminal: The contribution of phonetics and text/corpus linguistics
  • Forensic phonetics and the influence of speaking style on global measures of fundamental frequency
  • Phonetic cues to speaker age: A longitudinal study
  • Does speech reveal one’s age? On the use of gerontolinguistic topics for forensic authorship analysis
  • Part 3. Organizing legal systems: The contribution of computational linguistics and artificial intelligence
  • Definition extraction from court decisions using computational linguistic technology
  • Making sense of legal texts
  • Interfacing between different legal systems using the examples of N-Lex and EUR-Lex
  • The LOIS project and beyond
  • Part 4. Multilingualism and the law: The contribution of translation studies
  • Multilingualism in the European Union Status quo and perspectives: The reference language model
  • Drafting and interpretation of EU law – paradoxes of legal multilingualism
  • Multilingual law drafting in Switzerland
  • A modular approach to legal drafting and translation
  • Backmatter

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