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Linguistics for Legal Interpretation is a language resource for scholars and practitioners of law who engage and work with statutory interpretation. It draws on lexical semantics, pragmatics and sociolinguistics to both understand and solve language challenges central to the interpretation effort. I...
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oapen-20.500.12657-640622023-07-25T02:50:04Z Linguistics for legal interpretation Carney, Terrence R legal language, linguistics, legal interpretation bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics Linguistics for Legal Interpretation is a language resource for scholars and practitioners of law who engage and work with statutory interpretation. It draws on lexical semantics, pragmatics and sociolinguistics to both understand and solve language challenges central to the interpretation effort. In addition, this book offers best practice guidelines for dictionary use as well as an introduction to corpus linguistic methods to assist legal interpreters in determining either ordinary or technical meaning. The book illustrates the various language tools and devices by applying them to case law and legislation, and it does so in an accessible style of writing. Terrence R Carney is Associate Professor of Afrikaans Linguistics at the University of South Africa. He specialises in the language of law. 2023-07-24T12:16:56Z 2023-07-24T12:16:56Z 2023 book 9781776438884 9781776444601 9781776444618 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/64062 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International 9781776438891.pdf https://ujonlinepress.uj.ac.za/index.php/ujp/catalog/book/174 UJ Press 10.36615/9781776438891 10.36615/9781776438891 b166ea55-2ec8-4e5c-98ed-c27d3909a50b 9781776438884 9781776444601 9781776444618 292 Johannesburg open access |
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Linguistics for Legal Interpretation is a language resource for scholars and practitioners of law who engage and work with statutory interpretation. It draws on lexical semantics, pragmatics and sociolinguistics to both understand and solve language challenges central to the interpretation effort. In addition, this book offers best practice guidelines for dictionary use as well as an introduction to corpus linguistic methods to assist legal interpreters in determining either ordinary or technical meaning.
The book illustrates the various language tools and devices by applying them to case law and legislation, and it does so in an accessible style of writing.
Terrence R Carney is Associate Professor of Afrikaans Linguistics at the University of South Africa. He specialises in the language of law. |
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