: Günther Grewendorf, Monika Rathert
: Formal Linguistics and Law
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110218398
: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]ISSN
: 1
: CHF 159.40
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: Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
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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.


Günther Grewendorf, University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany;Monika Rathert, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany.
Table of contents6
Acknowledgements8
List of contributors10
Language and Law – new applications of formal linguistics14
Part 1 Understanding the law: The contribution of semantics and psycholinguistics36
Law matters, syntax matters and semantics matters38
Improving the comprehensibility of German court decisions68
Understanding a Riester-pension: A reply to Becker and Klein (2008)94
Part 2 Identifying the criminal: The contribution of phonetics and text/corpus linguistics126
Forensic phonetics and the influence of speaking style on global measures of fundamental frequency128
Phonetic cues to speaker age: A longitudinal study154
Does speech reveal one’s age? On the use of gerontolinguistic topics for forensic authorship analysis176
Part 3 Organizing legal systems: The contribution of computational linguistics and artificial intelligence194
Definition extraction from court decisions using computational linguistic technology196
Making sense of legal texts238
Interfacing between different legal systems using the examples of N-Lex and EUR-Lex270
The LOIS project and beyond306
Part 4 Multilingualism and the law: The contribution of translation studies326
Multilingualism in the European Union Status quo and perspectives: The reference language model328
Drafting and interpretation of EU law – paradoxes of legal multilingualism352
Multilingual law drafting in Switzerland384
A modular approach to legal drafting and translation414
Index440