Vijay K. Bhatia

Diversity and Tolerance in Socio-Legal Contexts (eBook, ePUB)

Explorations in the Semiotics of Law
Redaktion: Wagner, Anne

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how the various disciplines of law and linguistics can help us understand the nature of 'Diversity and Tolerance' - both oral and written - and how it might be clarified to avoid fear, and conflicts. It presents and examines recent research and theories at national level and on the international scene.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317149224
• Artikelnr.: 45099153

Autorenporträt

Anne Wagner, is an Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics., Université du Littoral Cÿte d'Opale, France. She is the President of the International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law (Springer). Her main research interests include legal language, law and semiotics, contemporary legal theory, law and literature. She is one of the editors of special issues published in the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law and has also published extensively on these issues in a variety of scholarly venues. Vijay K. Bhatia is a Visiting Professor in the Department of English and Communication at City University of Hong Kong. He has published widely on legal discourse. He is best known for his work Genre Analysis of legal genres. He has worked on several research projects, two of which are Analyzing Genre-bending in Corporate Disclosure Documents, and International Arbitration Practice: A Discourse Analytical Study, in which he leads research teams from about 20 countries, which consist of specialists from law, arbitration, and discourse analysis.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction The International Dual Nature of Law: Tolerance and Diversity
Anne Wagner
Vijay K. Bhatia; Part I The Semiotic Foundation of Diversity and Tolerance; Chapter 1 Tolerance
Pluralism and 'Fighting Faiths': Seeking the Sources of US Constitutional Meaning
Frederick P. Lewis; Chapter 2 'When the Law Speaks': Acts of Intolerance
Threats to Group-Identity
and Confidence in Law and Rights
Ira L. Strauber; Chapter 3 Mediated Semiosis in the Courtroom: Non-Verbal Communicators and the Usefulness of Audio Video Technology as a Tool by which to Oversee Justice
Isabell Petrinic; Chapter 4 1An earlier version of this chapter appeared in 2005; see . In the English translation Emese Gál and Andrea Feny?di helped me.
István H. Szilágyi; Chapter 5 'Une Certaine Idée de l'Homme
une Certaine Idée de la France': the Rhetorical Construction of Tolerance in French Political Discourse
Pamela Hobbs; Chapter 6 Shifts in the Concept of War: New War Terminology and its Legal Consequences
Hanneke van Schooten; Part II Case Analyses of Diversity and Tolerance; Chapter 7 1My debt and gratitude for being supported in thinking on this subject are many but Part Icular mention should be made of Christine B. Harrington (New York University)
Clara Velasco Rico (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Ira Strauber (Grinnell College) and Richard Mohr (University of Wollongong); all members of the 5th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law
'Law
Tolerance and Diversity'
17-20 May 2006
Boulogne sur Mer (France)
Convenor: Anne Wagner.
John Brigham; Chapter 8 Legality beyond the scope of Policy
Sarah Marusek; Chapter 9 On Sight/On Site: Visuality in Native Title Claims: Can We Even Speak?
Tracey Summerfield
Alec McHoul; Chapter 10 Race
Class and the Supreme Court: Rodriguez v. San Antonio Independent School District (1973)
William Pencak; Chapter 11 Legal Terms across Communities: Divergence behind Convergence in Law
Le Cheng
King Kui Sin; Chapter 12 Women as Legal subjects and Objects in contemporary china
Deborah Cao; Researching "Exploration" in the semiotics of the Law
Christopher N. Candlin;