Book of Donmon Teith

This book explores the language of judges. It is concerned with understanding how language works in judicial contexts. Using a range of disciplinary and methodo

This book examines legal language as a language for special purposes, evaluating the functions and characteristics of legal language and the terminology of law.

This history of legal language slices through the polysyllabic thicket of legalese. The text shows to what extent legalese is simply a product of its past and d

The world of law has changed in the last decades: it has become more globalized, multilingual and digital. The sections and contributions of this volume continu

This book introduces into the problems of Legal Linguistics. It starts with the most fundamental legal-linguistic question, i.e. how law is created and applied