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IJLLD 1.3
IJLLD Volume 1.3 (2011) (Frontsmatter) Maud Verdier and Christian Licoppe. Videoconference in French Courtrooms: Its consequences on judicial settings … 8 Eva Ng. A Survey of Court Interpreters’ Use of Direct versus Reported Speech in the Hong Kong Courts … 36 Niklas Torstensson and Kirk P. H. Sullivan. The Court Interpreter: Creating an interpretation of […]
1.3 Torstensson & Sullivan
Niklas Torstensson and Kirk P. H. Sullivan. (2011). The Court Interpreter: Creating an interpretation of the facts. International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 1(3), 64-86. Abstract: A fair trail is impossible without an interpreter when anyone taking part in the court proceedings does not know the national language, yet the use of an interpreter […]
1.3 Ng
Eva Ng. (2011). A Survey of Court Interpreters’ Use of Direct versus Reported Speech in the Hong Kong Courts. International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 1(3), 36-63. Abstract: The findings of my ongoing data-based study of courtroom interpreting in the Hong Kong courts reveal a deviation from the generally held principle which requires professional […]
1.3 Verdier & Licoppe
Maud Verdier and Christian Licoppe. (2011). Videoconference in French Courtrooms: Its consequences on judicial settings. International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 1(3), 8-35. Abstract: The use of videoconference has increased considerably in French courtrooms in order to minimize the costs of extracting defendants from prisons to attend various types of judicial hearings. It is […]
IJLLD 2.1 (2012)
IJLLD Volume 2.2 (2012) (Frontsmatter) Sebastian McEvoy. Forward … i Colin Robertson. The Problem of Meaning in Multilingual EU Legal Texts … 1 Maurizio Gotti. The Litigational ‘Colonisation’ of ADR Discourse … 31 Martin Solly. Communicating with the Wider Audience: The case of a legal blog … 52 Ross Charnock. Alternative Justifications and the Argument […]
2.1 Richardson Oakes
Anne Richardson Oakes. (2012). Schools and Race in the Language of the Law: Precision or Meaningless Jargon? International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 2(1), 156-179. Abstract: The decision of the United States Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education inaugurated the desegregation of the nation’s public schools, but the rationale was not clear […]
2.1 Ferry
Victor Ferry. (2012). The Dissociation of Notions as a Tool for Justification: A study on practical reasoning in common law decisions. International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 2(1), 143-155. Abstract: As an instance of the typical interaction between general argumentation theory and judicial argumentation practice, this paper uses the dissociation of notions, a concept […]
2.1 Plug
H. José Plug. (2012). Obscurities in the Formulation of Legal Argumentation. International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 2(1), 126-142. Abstract: The Dutch Supreme Court hears grievances against motivations of judicial decisions that are based on the ground that formulations in a motivation of a decision are obscure. It is, however, difficult to determine if […]
2.1 Feteris
Eveline T. Feteris. (2012). Strategic Manoeuvring with Linguistic Arguments in Legal Decisions: A disputable literal reading of the law. International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 2(1), 106-125. Abstract: In this contribution, pragma-dialectical theory and its complement, strategic manoeuvring theory, two theories of the Amsterdam school of argumentation, are used to explain the linguistic argument, […]
2.1 Klos & Klos
Maureen. L. Klos and Tamara. A. Klos. (2012). The Landlord’s Right to Consumer Protection. International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse 2(1), 95-105. Abstract: In this article, the authors discuss how the meaning of the term “consumer” can influence the controversial legal ramifications of the use of this term in the particular situation of the […]
