Linguistic human rights / Tove Skutnabb-Kangas Using linguistics in trademark cases / Roger W. Shuy A history of the languages of law / Peter M. Tiersma Legal vocabulary / Heikki E. S. Mattla The grammar and structure of legal texts / Risto Hiltunen Text and genre / Maurizio Gotti The plain language movement / Mark Adler Linguistic issues in statutory interpretation / Lawrence M. Solan Contract formation as a speech act / Sanford Schange Constitutional interpretation / Robert W. Bennett Ambiguity and vagueness in legal interpretation / Ralf Poscher Legal interpretation and the philosophy of language / Brian H. Bix Bilingual interpretation rules as a component of language rights in Canada / Michel Bastarache Word meaning and the problem of a globalized legal order / Jan Engberg Challenges to the legal translator / Susan Sarcevic Language and law in the European Union : the multilingual jurisprudence of the ECJ / Karen McAuliffe Fifty years of multilingual interpretation in the European Union / Cornelis J. W. Baaij Language policy in the United States / Peter M. Tiersma Legal rights of linguistic minorities in the European Union / Durk Gorter and Jasone Cenoz Investigating the language situation in Africa / Tunde Olusola Opeibi The meaning of silence in the right to remain silent / Janet Ainsworth Potential impact of juvenile suspects' linguistic abilities on Miranda understanding and appreciation / Naomi E. S. Goldstein The caution in England and Wales / Frances Rock The language of consent in police encounters / Janice Nadler and J. D. Trout The language of crime / Peter M. Tiersma and Lawrence M. Solan Interrogation throught pragmatic implication : sticking to the letter of the law while violating its intent / Deborah Davis and Richard A. Leo Discourse in the US courtroom / Gail Stygall Courtroom discourse in Japan's new judicial order / Mami Hiraike Okawara Courtroom discourse in China / Meizhen Liao The language of criminal trials in an inquisitorial system : the case of the Netherlands / Martha L. Komter and Marijke Malsch Linguistic issues in courtroom interpretation / Susan Berk-Seligson Instructing the jury / Nancy S. Marder. Language and copyright / Ronald R. Butters The psycholinguistic basis of distinctiveness in tradmark law / Syugo Hotta and Masahiro Fujita Author identification in the forensic setting / Carole E. Chaski Corpus linguistics in authorship identification / Krzysztof Kredens and Malcolm Coulthard Detecting plagiarism / David Woolls Language analysis for determination of origin : objective evidence for refugee status determination / Peter L. Patrick Factors affecting lay persons' identification of speakers / A. Daniel Yarmey Forensic speaker comparison : a linguistic-acoustic perspective / Paul Foulkes and Peter French |