This volume explores new interfaces between linguistics and
jurisprudence. Its theoretical and methodological importance lies
in showing that many questions asked within the field of language
and law receive satisfactory answers from formal linguistics. The
book starts with a paper by the two editors in which they explain
why the volume - as a whole and with its individual papers - is an
innovation in the field of language and law. In addition, an
overview about the most important research projects on language and
law is given. The first chapter of the book is on understanding the
law. Jurists and laypersons always ask for the precise meaning of a
certain piece of the law. In linguistics, the discipline
investigating 'meaning' is semantics; thus, it is to be expected
that semantics can contribute to a correct understanding of the
law. Chapter 1 also investigates the alleged incomprehensibility of
legal language with the help of psycholinguistics. Chapter 2 is on
identifying the criminal. To find the author of a blackmailer's
letter, text/ corpus linguistics is instrumental. If the
blackmailer uses the telephone instead of the letter, speaker
identification and phonetics are necessary. The BKA stores all
blackmailing letters in a database, but databases are only one
possibility of organizing legal systems; another possibility is the
application of tools from computational linguistics and artificial
intelligence. These tools can be useful to handle terminology, to
retrieve information, or to model legal theorizing in a formal
system. Chapter 3 demonstrates a variety of examples of organizing
legal systems. The topic of chapter 4 is multilingualism and the
law. The European legislation is a product of legal and linguistic
diversity, as the member states do not only differ in languages but
also in their legal systems. One paper shows how Switzerland
handles its multilingualism in legal drafting. The input of
translation studies is of course vital in this field of research.
An index for both subjects and persons complements the volume.
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