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Formal linguistics and law [electronic resource] / edited by G�unther Grewendorf, Monika Rathert.

Contributor(s): Grewendorf, G�unther | Rathert, Monika, 1972-Material type: Text

TextSeries: Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; ; 212.Publication details: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2009Description: 1 online resource (xii, 435 p.) : illISBN: 9783110218398 (electronic bk.); 3110218399 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Law -- Language | Law -- Interpretation and construction | LAW -- Jurisprudence | LAW -- General Practice | LAW -- Reference | LAW -- Essays | LAW -- Paralegals & Paralegalism | LAW -- Practical GuidesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Formal linguistics and law.DDC classification: 340/.14 LOC classification: K213 | .F668 2009ebOnline resources: EBSCOhost

Contents:

Language and law : new applications of formal linguistics / G�unther 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 L�otscher -- 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.

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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.

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