| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 435 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs,
1861-4302 ;
212
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Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 212.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Language and law : new applications of formal linguistics / Günther Grewendorf and Monika Rathert -- Law matters, syntax matters and semantics matters / Carl Vogel -- Improving the comprehensibility of German court decisions / Stella Neumann -- Understanding a Riester-pension : a reply to Becker and Klein (2008) / Monika Rathert -- Forensic phonetics and the influence of speaking style on global measures of fundamental frequency / Michael Jessen -- Phonetic cues to speaker age : a longitudinal study / Angelika Braun and Stefan Friebis -- Does speech reveal one's age? : on the use of gerontolinguistic topics for forensic authorship analysis / Jan Seifert -- Definition extraction from court decisions using computational linguistic technology / Stephan Walter -- Making sense of legal texts / Emile de Maat, Radboud Winkels, and Tom van Engers -- Interfacing between different legal systems using the examples of N-Lex and EUR-Lex / Doris Liebwald -- LOIS project and beyond / Erich Schweighofer -- Multilingualism in the European Union : status quo and perspectives : the reference language model / Karin Luttermann -- Drafting and interpretation of EU law--paradoxes of legal multilingualism / Agnieszka Doczekalska -- Multilingual law drafting in Switzerland / Andreas Lötscher -- Modular approach to legal drafting and translation / Jacqueline Visconti. |
| Summary |
The volume explores new interfaces between linguistics and jurisprudence. Its theoretical and methodological importance lies in showing that many questions asked within language and law receive satisfactory answers from formal linguistics, including computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, translation studies, psycholinguistics, semantics, phonetics and corpus linguistics. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Law -- Language.
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Law -- Language. |
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Law -- Interpretation and construction.
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Law -- Interpretation and construction. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Law. |
| Added Author |
Grewendorf, Günther.
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Rathert, Monika, 1972-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Formal linguistics and law. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2009 9783110218381 (DLC) 2009028432 (OCoLC)425960164 |
| ISBN |
9783110218398 (electronic book) |
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3110218399 (electronic book) |
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9783110218381 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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3110218380 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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