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IJLLD 8.2

IJLLD 8.2

| December 31, 2020

(Frontsmatter) Robert J. Dickey. International and Discourse is in Our Name … 5 Monika Mayrhofer. Victims, Security Threats or Agents? – Framing Climate Change-related Mobility in International Human Rights Documents … 9 Michelle Anne A. Marasigan & Rachelle Ballesteros-Lintao. Presentation and Comprehensibility of Public Policies in Online News Articles …35 Anton Osminkin. Pronominal Adverbs Based […]

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8.2 Osminkin

| December 31, 2020

Anton Osminkin. (2020). Pronominal Adverbs Based on Here-, There-, and Where- as Textual Connectors in Legal Discourse. International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 8(2), 57-85. Abstract: This paper examines the connectors based on here-, there-, and where-, as used in legal discourse. Although they are regularly mentioned in specialised literature (Crystal, 1988; Tiersma, 1999; […]

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8.2 Marasigan & Ballesteros-Lintao

| December 31, 2020

Michelle Anne A. Marasigan & Rachelle Ballesteros-Lintao. (2020). Presentation and Comprehensibility of Public Policies in Online News Articles. International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 8(2), 35-56. Abstract: Language is the primary vehicle in which public policies are expressed for “all concepts in law are linguistically constituted and expressed” (Silbey, 1989, p. 1) to the […]

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8.2 Mayrhofer

| December 31, 2020

Monika Mayrhofer. (2020). Victims, Security Threats or Agents? – Framing Climate Change-related Mobility in International Human Rights Documents. International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 8(2), 9-33. Abstract: Climate change-related human mobility is a contested issue. For over a decade, UN human rights bodies have contributed to international discussions on displacement, migration and other forms […]

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8.2 Dickey

| December 31, 2020

Robert J. Dickey. (2020). International and Discourse is in Our Name. International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 8(2), 5-8. Abstract: This introductory article describes the journal’s focus on “international” and “discourse,” and introduces the articles in this issue. Keywords: soft-genres, international, discourse, law, language PDF

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1.1 Wang

| September 3, 2020

Jie Wang. (2011). Analysis and Attestation of Linguistic Evidence in Judicial Practices. International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 1(1), 54-66. Abstract: On the basis of analysis of the mobile messages between the plaintiff and the defendant in the defamation case of Yang v Hu in which the authors testified as expert witness, this study […]

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IJLLD 1.1

IJLLD 1.1

| September 3, 2020

IJLLD Volume 1.1 (2011) (Frontsmatter) Paul Robertson. Forward … 4 Le Cheng and King Kui Sin. Courtroom Language and Discourse … 5 Gary D. Prideaux. Linguistic Contributions to the Analysis of Hate Language … 31 Jie Wang. Analysis and Attestation of Linguistic Evidence in Judicial Practices … 54 Ling Wang and King Kui Sin. Toward […]

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1.1 Wang & Sin

| September 3, 2020

Ling Wang and King Kui Sin. (2011). Toward a Clarification of the Concept of Cultural Transfer in Legal Translation. International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 1(1), 67-97. Abstract: It is widely held in translation studies that translating a text is not merely translating its language but also translating the culture embodied in the text […]

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1.1 Prideaux

| September 3, 2020

Gary D. Prideaux. (2011). Linguistic Contributions to the Analysis of Hate Language. International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 1(1), 31-53. Abstract: This paper examines several cases before the Canadian Human Rights Commission in which the author served as an expert witness. The data consist of texts taken from Internet or telephone message sites which […]

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1.1 Cheng & Sin

| September 3, 2020

Le Cheng and King Kui Sin. (2011). Courtroom Language and Discourse. International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 1(1), 5-30. Abstract: In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive survey of previous studies on courtroom discourse. Courtroom language provides a rich source of data for sociology, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics and other related disciplines. The macro studies […]

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