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Legal Discourse across Languages and Cultures: 117
Author(s): Maurizio Gotti (Editor), Christopher John Williams
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
- Publication Date: 16 July 2010
- Edition: New
- Language: English
- Print length: 339 pages
- ISBN-10: 3034304250
- ISBN-13: 9783034304252
Book Description
The chapters constituting this volume focus on legal language seen from cross-cultural perspectives, a topic which brings together two areas of research that have burgeoned in recent years, i.e. legal linguistics and intercultural studies, reflecting the rapidly changing, multifaceted world in which legal institutions and cultural/national identities interact. Within the broad thematic leitmotif of this volume, it has been possible to identify two major strands: legal discourse across languages on the one hand, and legal discourse across cultures on the other. Of course, labels of this kind are adopted partly as a matter of convenience, and it could be argued that any paper dealing with legal discourse across languages inevitably has to do with legal discourse across cultures. But a closer inspection of the papers comprising each of these two strands reveals that there is a coherent logic behind the choice of labels. All seven chapters in the first section are concerned with legal topics where more than one language is at stake, whereas all seven chapters in the second section are concerned with legal topics where cultural differences are brought to the fore.
Editorial Reviews
Review
«The editors are to be congratulated on having produced a stimulating collection of readings, with a rich assortment of topical issues concerning legal discourse in different linguistic contexts and cultural settings. […] The volume as a whole provides valuable insights into the complex interaction of language, law and culture, at the national, international and global level.» (Risto Hiltunen, The European English Messenger)
About the Author
The Editors: Maurizio Gotti is Professor of English Linguistics and Director of the Research Centre on Specialized Languages (CERLIS) at the University of Bergamo. His main research areas are the features and origins of specialized discourse. He is a member of the Editorial Board of national and international journals, and edits the Linguistic Insights series for Peter Lang.
Christopher Williams is Professor of English Linguistics and Director of the Language Centre at the University of Foggia. His main research areas are tense, aspect and modality in contemporary English and legal linguistics. He is co-editor of the journal ESP Across Cultures.
Christopher Williams is Professor of English Linguistics and Director of the Language Centre at the University of Foggia. His main research areas are tense, aspect and modality in contemporary English and legal linguistics. He is co-editor of the journal ESP Across Cultures.
