Language and Law in Professional Discourse: Issues and Perspectives

This Book Provides Insights Into The Ways In Which Legal Professionals Participate In Their Day-to-day Activity And Critically Focuses On How Language Is Used And Exploited In Everyday Professional Discourse. It Is Organised Into Two Parts Dealing With Topic Areas Of Legal Discourse (written And Spoken) Relevant To Professional Practice And Communication. The Innovative Research Landscape Offered By This Book Covers Diverse And Complex Features Of Legal Discourse Construction Where Socially Informed Aspects Of Language Use Are Negotiated By Professional Practices. Such Features Provide The Wide Scope For The Critical Study Of Legal Language As A Tool For Social Action, And Set Up A Descriptive And Interpretive Framework For Engaging With Representations Of Legal Discourses And Genres Where Authority, Power, Ideology, As Well As Areas Of Hybridity, Intertextuality, Interdiscursivity And Recontextualization Are Involved In Legal Discourse. This Book Brings Together Scholars From A Wide Academic Spectrum Around The Globe With An Interest In The Intricacies Of Language And Law As They Play Out In The Real World. The Book Will Therefore Offer Both A Resource And A Stimulus To Law And Language Practitioners As Well S To A Wider Readership--unedited Summary From Book Jacket. Facing The Facts : Evaluative Patterns In English And Italian Judicial Language / Stanislaw Goźdź-roszkowski And Gianluca Pontrandolfo -- Drafting Court Judgment In Italy : History, Complexity And Simplification / Stefano Ondelli -- Self-construction Of Legislative Discourse Through Mashups : A Multi-perspective Analysis / Anna Franca Plastina -- Expert To Lay Communication : Legal Information And Advice On The Internet / Judith Turnbull -- Competing Discourses Of Respect In A Young Offenders Institution Education Department / Paula Bocale -- Constructing Authority In International Investment Arbitration : Insights From Separate Opinions At Icsid / Ruth Breeze -- A Question Of Training : Issues Of Language And Power In Formal Police Investigative Interviews / Bronwen Hughes And Antenella Napolitano -- A Respected Neutral Expert : Arbitrator Profile In Focus / Tarja Salmi-tolonen -- Role Hybridity In Professional Practice In A Hearing In The Special Criminal Court / Vieira Torres Amitza. Edited By Vijay K. Bhatia, Giuliana Garzone, Rita Salvi, Girolamo Tessuto, Christopher Williams. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.