Arabic-English-Arabic Legal Translation provides a groundbreaking investigation of the issues found in legal translation between Arabic and English. Drawing on a contrastive-comparative approach, it analyses parallel authentic legal documents in both Arabic and English to examin…
"A legal judgment is first and foremost a story, a narrative of facts about the parties to the case. Creating Legal Worlds is a study of how that narrative operates, and how rhetoric, story, and style function as integral elements of any legal argument. Through careful analyses …
Using an A-Z encyclopedia-style, this work explores modern social life, legal thought, and the interaction of these with Shakespearean drama.
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…
"The close connection between philosophy of language and philosophy of law has been recognized for decades through the work of many influential legal philosophers. This volume brings recent advances in philosophy of language to bear on contemporary debates about the nature of la…
The Chinese language, "unique in its writing form and linguistic structure and in the way it represents the world," is central to an understanding of Chinese law, as law is always coded in language. In his linguistic analysis of Chinese law, Cao (languages and linguistics, Griff…
