3. Language Rights

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. List Of Figures IX
5. List Of Figures 1
6. Part I: The Foundations Of Legal Language
7. 1. Legal Drafting 13
8. 2. The Interpretation Of Laws 36
9. 3. Language Rights 54
10. 4. Language Planning And Legal Systems 83
11. 5. Semantic Processing Of Legal Texts 109
12. Part II: Forensic Linguistics And Court Setting
13. 6. Implicit legal norms 141
14. 7. Authorship attribution analysis 169
15. 8. Topic management in police-suspect interviewing 201
16. 9. Forensic voice comparison 219
17. 10. Narrative practices and voice in court 256
18. Part III: Legal language outside of court
19. 11. Linguistic analysis in trade mark law: current approaches and new challenges 287
20. 12. Defamation, language and linguistics 321
21. 13. Future directions in law and popular culture: a British perspective 339
22. Part IV: International legal settings
23. 14. Multilingual interpretation of European Union law 373
24. 15. Contemporary Chinese law: a linguistic perspective 402
25. 16. Unity and varieties of Arabic as a legal language: practices of interpretation and translation 423
26. 17. Law, language and communication in the Indian context 435
27. 18. The many languages of Japanese legal language 450
28. Biographical notes 479
29. Index 485