Legal communication: a cross-cultural perspective (Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego)

Tytuł Legal Communication: A Cross-Cultural Perspective Autor Anna Jopek-Bosiacka Język angielski Wydawnictwo Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego ISBN 978-83-235-1187-8 Rok wydania 2010 Warszawa Wydanie 1 liczba stron 271 Format pdf Spis treści Introduction 7

PART I. SETTING THE LEGAL SCENE 15

Chapter 1. Language of law and legal communication 17

1.1. The concept and the status of the language of law 18
1.2. Evolution of the language of law 28
1.3. The language of law as special purpose communication 35
1.4. Approaches to studies of language of law and legal communication 41

Chapter 2. Speaking voices in legal context 51

2.1. Participant roles and their linguistic expression from the point of view of (socio)linguistics and jurisprudence 52
2.1.1. Addresser and sender 55
2.1.2. Addressee and receiver 58
2.2. The position of translator in legal communication 65
2.3. The structure of the legal community 70
2.3.1. Analysing communities 71
2.3.2. Legal community as specialist discourse community 77

PART II. TOWARDS AN INTERTEXTUAL DESCRIPTION OF LEGAL DISCOURSE 85

Chapter 3. Semantics of legal discourse 87

3.1. Precision 93
3.2. Indeterminacy 103
3.3. Specialization 106
3.4. Complexity 109
3.5. Conservatism 121

Chapter 4. Pragmatics of legal discourse 131

4.1. Evolution of text typologies 133
4.2. Legal discourse as authoritarian discourse 137
4.3. Legal rhetoric and legal genres 140
4.4. Legal reasoning 150
4.5. Legal speech acts and performativity 157
4.6. Legal modality 166
4.7. Intertextuality of legal discourse 174

PART III. LEGAL DISCOURSE IN CROSS-CULTURAL CONTEXT 179

Chapter 5. Law, context, culture 181

5.1. Analysing context 181
5.2. Legal culture(s) as context 188

Chapter 6. Legal power 195

6.1. Analysing power 196
6.2. Power of expert knowledge 201
6.3. Legal interpretation 204

Chapter 7. ‘Europeanisation’ of Polish legal discourse and legal culture 211

7.1. The European legal culture as a hybrid culture 211
7.2 Development of the European legal culture 212
7.3. The ‘Europeanisation’ of Polish legislative discourse 222

Conclusions 233
Bibliography 241
Index 267