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'Legal-Lay Communication' combines a range of perspectives on a key theme in language and law with a specific theoretical focus on how texts 'travel' through the legal process. The chapters in the book explore aspects of legal-lay communication, or those nodes of interaction whe…
This study offers a unique combination of two methodological frameworks: a rigorous corpus-driven data analysis, and a pragmaphilological, context-sensitive qualitative interpretation of the findings. Providing the reader with a rich socio-historical background of legal discours…
"A focused, invaluable guide to nonprofit legal terminology and definitionsThe Bruce R. Hopkins Nonprofit Law Dictionary is a thorough professional reference for the terminology and definitions surrounding the law of tax-exempt organizations. Author Bruce R. Hopkins, the country…
"A focused, invaluable guide to nonprofit legal terminology and definitionsThe Bruce R. Hopkins Nonprofit Law Dictionary is a thorough professional reference for the terminology and definitions surrounding the law of tax-exempt organizations. Author Bruce R. Hopkins, the country…
Offers an overview of law, as it applies to everyday life, including information on credit and debt, workplace rights, wills, divorce, social security, landlord-tenant laws, child custody and visitation, and criminal law.
This volume contributes to the latest studies in legal discourse studies by presenting a descriptive and interpretive analysis of English legal genres used in academic and professional writing contexts. The results of corpora-driven data are discussed through (meta)discourse, ge…
Employing recent advances in philosophy of language to elucidate key aspects of legal communication, this volume examines how the language of legal directives can determine the content of the law, thereby enabling a better understanding of the boundaries between normative and li…
"Contracts: The Essential Business Desk Reference provides easy-to-understand explanations of over 300 common contract terms. It also includes information about common negotiating strategies, examples of contract provisions, sample contracts with explanations, tips on amending a…