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Illusions of a common Language: Impressions of an arbitration practitioner
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Daniel Greineder
Abstract
International arbitration resolves a wide range of mostly commercial disputes globally. Parties freely choose a procedural language. This chapter gives a non-technical introduction and describes some of the linguistic, legal and cultural challenges facing users, who often adopt English.
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Abstract
International arbitration resolves a wide range of mostly commercial disputes globally. Parties freely choose a procedural language. This chapter gives a non-technical introduction and describes some of the linguistic, legal and cultural challenges facing users, who often adopt English.
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Introduction 1
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Section 1: Investigating legal interpretation and argumentation
- The Dulac affair and the triple game of contemporary art 9
- Argumentation, rhetoric and legal justification. The case of Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal ruling on abortion 29
- The pragmatics of evidence discourse: Ostensive acts 47
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Section 2: Looking at language to investigate legal challenges
- Illusions of a common Language: Impressions of an arbitration practitioner 67
- Pragmatic features of Italian court proceedings 79
- Politeness Matters: What honorifics can tell us about accuracy in Japanese-English court interpreting 91
- Textual representation as a conceptual tool: Big data analysis of legal language 117
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Section 3: Theories of sense and meaning for legal investigations
- What is practical about law? Contemporary legal philosophy on legal practice 145
- Natural semantic (legal?) metalanguage. What can legal theory learn from Anna Wierzbicka? 173
- Index 205
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Introduction 1
-
Section 1: Investigating legal interpretation and argumentation
- The Dulac affair and the triple game of contemporary art 9
- Argumentation, rhetoric and legal justification. The case of Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal ruling on abortion 29
- The pragmatics of evidence discourse: Ostensive acts 47
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Section 2: Looking at language to investigate legal challenges
- Illusions of a common Language: Impressions of an arbitration practitioner 67
- Pragmatic features of Italian court proceedings 79
- Politeness Matters: What honorifics can tell us about accuracy in Japanese-English court interpreting 91
- Textual representation as a conceptual tool: Big data analysis of legal language 117
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Section 3: Theories of sense and meaning for legal investigations
- What is practical about law? Contemporary legal philosophy on legal practice 145
- Natural semantic (legal?) metalanguage. What can legal theory learn from Anna Wierzbicka? 173
- Index 205
