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A Forensic Linguistic Approach to Legal Disclosures - ERISA Cash Balance Conversion Cases and the Contextual Dynamics of Deception (Hardcover)
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A Forensic Linguistic Approach to Legal Disclosures - ERISA Cash Balance Conversion Cases and the Contextual Dynamics of Deception (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Linguistics
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This book is a scholarly work of forensic linguistics that
demonstrates how the principles of Gricean pragmatics and their
recent elaboration in Information Manipulation Theory (IMT) can be
of use to courts faced with deciding cases of allegedly fraudulent
disclosure documents. The usual goal of legal rules for disclosure
documents is not merely to prevent lying but other forms of
deception as well. In particular, the goal of these rules is to
force the communicator to reveal information that could cause
material harm to certain receivers, harms that the communicator,
for various reasons of self-interest, might prefer to keep secret
or hidden. Because IMT and the Gricean framework have seldom been
used in published studies to investigate legally mandated
disclosure documents aimed at laypersons, this book seeks to enrich
current explications of the rhetorical "workings" of deceptive
disclosures within the broader Gricean tradition of pragmatics. The
book questions the fundamental relationships among Grice's maxims
as well as the much circulated notion that violation of some maxims
is more deceptive and more immoral than violations of others. In
addition, the book also attempts to show how various other theories
and research in discourse linguistics and reading comprehension can
be used to support IMT analyses in addressing the discourse
processing issues unique to legally required disclosure texts. In
this way the book contributes to the larger dual mission of the
field of forensic linguistics, which is both to understand and to
improve courts' impact on social justice.
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