Speaking of Language and Law

Among the most prominent scholars of language and law is Peter Tiersma, a law professor at Loyola Law School with a doctorate in linguistics (co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law). Tiersmas significant body of work traverses a variety of legal and linguistic fields. This book offers a selection of twelve of Tiersmas most influential publications, divided into five thematic areas that are critical to both law and linguistics: Language and Law as a Field of Inquiry, Legal Language and its History, Language and Civil Liability, Language and Criminal Justice, and Jury Instructions. Each paper is accompanied by a brief commentary from a leading scholar in the field, offering a substantive conversation about the ramifications of Tiersmas work and the disagreements that have often surrounded it.

Auteur

Lawrence Solan is Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School. Janet Ainsworth is Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law. Roger W. Shuy is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University.

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Acknowledgements Contributors Preface Part I Legal Language and Its History 1. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from A History of the Languages of Law (in The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law) 2. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from Legal Language 3. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from Parchment, Paper, Pixels 4. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from Some Myths about Legal Language 5. Frederick Schauer, On the Relationship Between Legal and Ordinary Language 6. Ronald R. Butters, Legal Language and its History: Quo Imus? Qua Imus? 7. Frank S. Ravitch, Philosophical Hermeneutics in the Age of Pixels: Hans-Georg Gadamer, Peter Tiersma, and Dasein in the Age of the Internet 8. Edward Finegan, The Language of Lawyers and the Language of Plumbers 9. Dieter Stein, Words, Words, Words - But What's in a Text? Part II The Language of Contracts and Wills 10. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from Parchment, Paper, Pixels 11. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from Reassessing Unilateral Contracts 12. Brian H. Bix, Philosophy of Language, Unilateral Contracts, and the Law 13. Sidney W. DeLong, How to do Legal Things with Words: The Contracts Scholarship of Peter Tiersma 14. Peter Goodrich, Tiersma Contra Mundum In Defence Of Promises 15. Jeffrey M. Lipshaw, Formalism, Speech Acts, and The Realities Of Contract Formation Part III Speech and Action The Meanings of Silence in Law 16. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpts from The Language of Silence 17. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from Nonverbal Communication and the Freedom of Speech 18. Elizabeth Mertz, Law's Metalinguistics: Silence, Speech, and Action 19. Malcolm Coulthard, The Sounds of Silence 20. Meizhen Liao, Speech or Silence: Within and Beyond Language and Law Consenting 21. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt fromThe Language of Consent in Rape Law (In Janet Cotterill (ed.), The Language of Sexual Crime (pp. 91-97) 22. Susan Ehrlich, 'Inferring' Consent in the Context of Rape and Sexual Assault 23. Tim Grant & Kerrie Spaul, Felicitous Consent 24. Gregory M. Matoesian, Reflections on Peter Tiersma's ?The Language and Consent in Rape Law? 25. Gail Stygall, Speaking of Consent Defaming 26. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from The Language of Defamation 27. John M. Conley, Defamation as Speech Act: A Theory that Works 28. Roger W. Shuy, Applying Tiersma's Defamation Theory to Defamation Cases 29. Krzysztof Kredens, Scarlet Letter or Badge of Honour? Semantic Interpretation in Changing Contexts of Culture Part IV Interpreting Laws 30. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from Parchment, Paper, Pixels (pp. 169-176, starting with "Dynamic Statutes") 31. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from The Textualization of Precedent (pp. 1187-89, 1257-62). 32. Lawrence M. Solan, Talk About Text as Text 33. Jeffrey P. Kaplan, Textualization, Textualism, and Purpose-Stating Preambles 34. Dru Stevenson, Between Paper and Pixels - How the Form of Modern Laws Changed their Function Part V Language and Criminal Justice Crimes of Language 35. Peter M. Tiersma, Except from The Language of Perjury: ?Literal Truth,? Ambiguity, and the False Statement Requirement 36. Lawrence M. Solan and Peter M. Tiersma, ?Threats? (from Speaking of Crime (pp. 198-204) 37. Janet Ainsworth, How We Play Games with Words in the Law 38. Philip Gaines, Toward a Communicative Approach to Law- and Rule-Making 39. Susan Berk-Seligson, Threats: A Pragmalinguistic Approach to the Analysis of a Speech Crime Criminal Justice and Everyday Speech 40. Peter M. Tiersma, Except from The Judge as Linguist 41. Hannes Kniffka, Applied (Forensic) Linguistics in Autochthonic and Allochthonic Use 42. Richard A. Leo, The Sound of Silence: Miranda Waivers, Selective Literalism and Social Context 43. Laurie L. Levenson, Words Alone 44. Frances Rock, Sizzling Irons: Speaking of Criminal Justice Part VI Jury Instructions 45. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from The Rocky Road to Legal Reform 46. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from Legal Language 47. Bethany K. Dumas, Navigating the Rocky Road 48. Chris Heffer, Authority and Accommodation: Judicial Responses to Jurors' Questions 49. Nancy S. Marder, Jury Instructions Written for Jurors: A Perennial Challenge Bibliography of Peter Tiersma's Work