Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part 1. Historical pragmatics
5. Chapter 1. Pleading for life 21
6. Chapter 2. “How came you not to cry out?” 41
7. Chapter 3. Implicatures in Early Modern English courtroom records 65
8. Chapter 4. Literal interpretation and political expediency 81
9. Part 2. Pragmatics of legal writing and documents
10. Chapter 5. Making legal language clear to legal laypersons 101
11. Chapter 6. Interpreting or in legal texts 117
12. Part 3. Discourse in the courtroom and in police investigation
13. Chapter 7. The nature of power and control in the interrogative patterns of selected Nigerian courtroom discourse 133
14. Chapter 8. The language of Egyptian interrogations 157
15. Chapter 9. Achieving influence through negotiation 181
16. Chapter 10. “I really don’t know because I’m stupid” 203
17. Part 4. Legal discourse and multilingualism
18. Chapter 11. On the balance between invariance and context-dependence 231
19. Chapter 12. Contextuality of interpretation in non-monolingual jurisdictions 257
20. Legal pragmatics - subject index proposal 277