This series of documents is a compendium of the current status of knowledge about the language of law. The most important approaches of well-known protagonists in the field of forensic linguistics are compiled, surveyed and discussed in detail.

This series of documents is a compendium of the current status of knowledge about the language of law. The most important approaches of well-known protagonists in the field of forensic linguistics are compiled, surveyed and discussed in detail.

This volume presents a collection of systematically linked contributions by expert linguists, lawyers, and writers on the problems of understanding legal language, on the methodology of empirically measuring the comprehensibility of texts, and on the opportunities for transdisciplinary co-operation between lawyers and linguists.