Anmerkung | Includes bibliographical references and index Excerpt from a history of the languages of law (in the Ooxford handbook of language and law) / Peter M. Tiersma -- Excerpt from legal language / Peter M. Tiersma -- Excerpt from parchment, paper, pixels / Peter M. Tiersma -- Excerpt from some myths about legal language / Peter M. Tiersma -- On the relationship between legal and ordinary language / Frederick Schauer -- Legal language and its history: quo imus? qua imus? / Ronald R. Butters -- Philosophical hermeneutics in the age of pixels : Hans-Georg Gadamer, Peter Tiersma, and Dasein in the age of the internet / Frank S. Ravitch -- The language of lawyers and the language of plumbers / Edward Finegan -- Words, words, words : but what's in a text? / Dieter Stein -- Excerpt from parchment, paper, pixels / Peter M. Tiersma -- Excerpt from reassessing unilateral contracts / Peter M. Tiersma -- Philosophy of language, unilateral contracts, and the law / Brian H. Bix --^ How to do legal things with words: the contracts scholarship of Peter Tiersma / Sidney W. DeLong -- Tiersma contra mundum in defence of promises / Peter Goodrich -- Formalism, speech acts, and the realities of contract formation / Jeffrey M. Lipshaw -- Excerpts from the language of silence / Peter M. Tiersma -- Excerpt from nonverbal communication and the freedom of speech / Peter M. Tiersma -- Law's metalinguistics : silence, speech, and action / Elizabeth Mertz -- The sounds of silence / Malcolm Coulthard -- Speech or silence : within and beyond language and law / Meizhen Liao -- Excerpt from the language of consent in rape law (in Janet Cotterill (ed.), The language of sexual crime (pp. 91-97) / Peter M. Tiersma -- "Inferring" consent in the context of rape and sexual assault / Susan Ehrlich -- Felicitous consent / Tim Grant & Kerrie Spaul -- Reflections on Peter Tiersma's "the language and consent in rape law" / Gregory M. Matoesian -- Speaking of consent / Gail Stygall --^ Excerpt from the language of defamation / Peter M. Tiersma -- Defamation as speech act: a theory that works / John M. Conley -- Applyhing Tiersm'a defamation theory to defamation cases / Roger W. Shuy -- Scarlet letter or badge of honour? : semantic interpretation in changing contexts of culture / Krzysztof Kredens -- Excerpt from parchment, paper, pixels (pp. 169-176, starting with "dynamic statutes") / Peter M. Tiersma -- Excerpt from the textualization of precedent (pp. 1187-89, 1257-62) / Peter M. Tiersma -- Talk about text as text / Lawrence M. Solan -- Textualization, textualism, and purpose-stating preambles / Jeffrey P. Kaplan -- Between paper and pixels : how the form of modern laws changed their function / Dru Stevenso -- Except from the language of perjury : "literal truth," ambiguity, and the false statement requirement / Peter M. Tiersma -- "Threats" (from speaking of crime (pp. 198-204) / Lawrence M. Solan and Peter M. Tiersma --^ How we play games with words in the law / Janet Ainsworth -- Toward a communicative approach to law- and rule-making / Philip Gaines -- Threats: a pragmalinguistic approach to the analysis of a speech crime / Susan Berk-Seligson -- Except from the judge as linguist / Peter M. Tiersma -- Applied (forensic) linguistics in autochthonic and allochthonic use / Hannes Kniffka -- The sound of silence : Miranda waivers, selective literalism and social context / Richard A. Leo -- Words alone / Laurie L. Levenson -- Sizzling irons : speaking of criminal justice / Frances Rock -- Excerpt from the rocky road to legal reform / Peter M. Tiersma -- Excerpt from legal language / Peter M. Tiersma -- Navigating the rocky road / Bethany K. Dumas -- Authority and accommodation : judicial responses to jurors' questions / Chris Heffer -- Jury instructions written for jurors : a perennial challenge / Nancy S. Marder -- Bibliography of Peter Tiersma's work |