Volume 2
2.1 McEvoy
Sebastian McEvoy. (2012). Foreward. International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 2(1), i-viii. Abstract: Comparative law usually compares different legal systems and more particularly, within those systems, rules of law over similar issues. In the double context of the several trends towards legal globalisation, unification or harmonisation and linguistic diversity, legal multiplicity is here put […]

IJLLD 2.2
IJLLD Volume 2.2 (2012) (Frontsmatter) Stefanos Vlachopoulos. Towards a Creativity-based Framework for Defining and Describing Court Interpreting: Based on the true story of court interpreting in Greece … 1 Stella Szantova Giordano. “We Have to Get By”: Court interpreting and its impact on access to justice for non-native English speakers … 17 Roya Monsefi. Language […]
2.2 Stefanicki
Robert Stefanicki. (2012). Evaluating Legal Protection of the Consumer. International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 2(2), 70-98. Abstract: The project has met with a great response from practitioners, domestic and foreign experts, as well as representatives of European Commission, courts, public administration bodies and various organisations, including ordinary consumers. Consumer protection strategy is based […]
2.2 Monsefi
Roya Monsefi. (2012). Language in Criminal Justice: Forensic linguistics in Shipman trial. International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 2(2), 43-69. Abstract: Inquiry sessions of a court play a vital role in juries’ decisions and consequently fate of the defendant. In the present paper, attorneys’ questioning strategies in 146 examination-in-chief sessions of Dr Shipman’s murder […]
2.2 Szantova Giordano
Stella Szantova Giordano. (2012). “We Have to Get By”: Court interpreting and its impact on access to justice for non-native English speakers. International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 2(2), 17-42. Abstract: Non-native English speakers find themselves on an unequal footing in American courts. While some of them possess reasonable proficiency in conversational English, almost […]
2.2 Vlachopoulos
Stefanos Vlachopoulos. (2012). Chunks in Information Flow: a Corpus-based Analysis of Legal Discourse. International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 2(2), 1-18. Abstract: The purpose of the paper is to tell the story of court interpreting in Greece. Drawing on a questionnaire-based survey among legal professionals, the general picture of the role, the performance and […]

IJLLD 2.3
IJLLD Volume 2.3 (2012) (Frontsmatter) Terry Royce. The Analysis of Police Crisis Negotiations: Important Interactional Features … 1-24 Vadim Verenich. The Semiotic Model of Legal Reasoning … 25-58 Fabrizio Macagno and Douglas Walton. Character Attacks as Complex Strategies of Legal Argumentation … 59-117 Tammy Gales. Review — Patterns of Linguistic Variation in American Legal English: […]
2.3 Gales
Tammy Gales. (2012). Review — Patterns of Linguistic Variation in American Legal English: A corpus-based study. International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 2(3), 118-128. Abstract: Stanislaw Goźdź-Roszkowski’s Patterns of Linguistic Variation in American Legal English: A Corpus-based Study is one of the newest volumes (22) in the Łódź Studies in Language series, edited by […]
2.3 Verenich
Vadim Verenich. (2012). The Semiotic Model of Legal Reasoning. International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 2(3), 25-58. Abstract: The scope of this paper is the analysis of semiotic models of legal argumentation and legal discourse. The paper explores how different semiotic models of legal reasoning underscore our appreciation for legal reasoning. The analysis of […]
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