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4.2 Patrignani
Emma Patrignani. (2014). Book Review: Heikki E.S. Mattila, Comparative Legal Linguistics – Language of Law, Latin and Modern Lingua Francas, 2nd edition, Ashgate, Farnham, 2013. International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 4(2), 131-136. PDF
4.2 Ochieng Orwenjo
Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo. (2014). Achieving Credibility in Quasi-Judicial Discourse: A Genre Analysis Approach to the Report of the Commission of Enquiry into Post-election Violence in Kenya. International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 4(2), 98-130. Abstract: This paper assesses the strategies used to achieve credibility in written judicial discourse by analysing the Report of the […]
4.2 Cabau
Béatrice Cabau. (2014). Language Policy/Planning and Linguistic Rights in Sweden. International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 4(2), 75-97. Abstract: As a result of immigration in recent decades and the long presence of national minorities, Sweden can be defined as a multilingual society. Numerous official documents related to language issues (government reports and bills) have […]
4.2 Hu
Pi-chan Hu. (2014). A Study of the Frame of Legal Language. International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 4(2), 1-45. Abstract: Why is there always a wide gap between ordinary language and legal language? Do legal professionals and laymen think differently? In this study, we employed categorization theories such as frame semantics, checklist theory and […]
4.2 Cotterill
Janet Cotterill. (2014). The Construction of Identities in the Criminal Courtroom: Criminals, Victims and Crimes as Construed in Scottish Judges’ Sentencing Statements. International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 4(2), 46-74.. Introduction: Within the courtroom context, there are a number of key individuals who conduct the majority of the interaction. These include the obvious participants: […]
5.1 Alharbi & Bahmani
Ahlam Alharbi and Mona Bahmani. (2015). Media Representation of the Islamic Law: A Case Study of Ashtiani’s Stoning. International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 5(1), 66-100. Abstract: Drawing on principles of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) the proposed study tried to reveal media portrayal of the Islamic law in general […]
5.1 Guan
Xin Guan. (2015). Potential Speaker-Discriminating Power of Speaking Style: Application of Discourse Information Analysis to Forensic Speaker Recognition. International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 5(1), 38-65. Abstract: Not only are there differences in the voices that are from different speakers of the same language, but also in the voices that are produced by the […]
5.1 Boyd & Walbaum Robinson
Michael S. Boyd and Isabel A. Walbaum Robinson. (2015). Text Commenting in Mediatised Legal Discourse: Evaluating Reader Understanding of (International) Criminal Law. International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 5(1), 1-37. Abstract: The post-modern court culture in civil litigation is based on communication and interaction between the parties and the judge. There has been a […]
IJLLD 5.2
IJLLD Volume 5.2 (2015) (Frontsmatter) Joseph-G. Turi. Language Law and Language Rights. … 1-18 Jinbang Du. Application of Multimodal Information Corpus Techniques in Legal English Teaching … 19-38 Catherine Way. A Discourse Analysis Approach to Legal Translator Training: More than words … 39-61 Laura Ervo and Carlo Rasia. Legal Bilingualisation and Factual Multilingualisation: A comparative […]
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