International Handbook of Legal Language and Communication : From Text to Semiotics

Wagner, Anne (EDT)

Springer, Berlin; Springer Nature Switzerland; Springer（2031発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版
• 商品コード 9783031901201

Description

This authoritative handbook explores the intricate relationship between legal language and communication across diverse legal contexts. It provides a comprehensive analysis of legal linguistics, examining how language shapes the creation, interpretation, and enforcement of laws. Drawing from linguistics, semiotics, legal theory, and digital communication studies, it investigates the dynamic ways in which legal meaning is constructed and conveyed. Moving beyond textual analysis, the handbook integrates semiotics, exploring both verbal and non-verbal communication in legal settings. It highlights the significance of visual semiotics symbols, iconography, body language, and courtroom gestures in legal interpretation and proceedings. Additionally, it delves into contemporary challenges posed by digital communication, including the legal implications of emojis, cyberbullying, and the role of artificial intelligence in legal discourse. With a strong international and comparative perspective, the handbook examines multilingual legal systems, translation challenges, and the intersection of law with cultural and technological shifts. It addresses how different legal traditions manage linguistic diversity, legal interpretation, and digital transformation, offering insights into emerging trends in legal communication.

Designed for legal practitioners, linguists, policymakers, technologists, and scholars, this handbook bridges disciplinary boundaries to provide a deeper understanding of how language and communication shape justice in an increasingly globalized and digitized world.

Law and Language: Foundational Theories and Practices.- Signs of Justice: Exploring Semiotics in Legal Communication.- Legal Boundaries at the Edge: Crime, Cybersecurity, Constitutional Limits.- Bridging Legal Systems: Challenges of Multilingualism and Legal Transfer.- The Power of Symbols: Non-Verbal Influence in Law.- Legal Worlds Collide: Managing Comparative and Bilingual Systems.- Voices of Justice: Language, Human Rights, and Gender.- Tales of Justice: Law in Literature, Film, and Comics.- Tech-Driven Justice.- Shaping the Future: Dynamic Legal Language and Communication.

Anne WAGNER, Ph.D. and holder of a Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches in Private Law, is a Research Associate Professor at Lille University, affiliated with ULR 4487-CRDP (Centre de recherche Droits et Perspectives du Droit, équipe René Demogue) in France. Her primary research interests encompass visual jurisprudence, legal semiotics, visual studies, language and law, legal culture and heritage, legal translation, legal terminology, law and the Humanities, and legal discourse studies. She has been honored with the National Research Award (Rank A) for her distinguished research career and has received the "Comenda Jurista Tobias Barreto", a prestigious recognition for outstanding contributions to legal culture, from the Instituto Brasileiro de Estudos do Direito in Recife, Brazil.

She has extensively published in the areas of legal semiotics and legal discourse analyses with research papers or special issues in: International Journal for the Semiotics of Law; Semiotica; Law, Culture and the Humanities; Social Sciences; Journal of Civil Law Studies; Hermes; Comparative Legilinguistics; International Journal of Legal Discourse; Law & History; Law and Literature; La Semaine Juridique: E dition Ge ne rale; LSP & Professional Communication; International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law; UNESCO ALSED-LSP Newsletter; and Humanity and Society.