Constructing legal discourses and social practices : issues and perspectives / co-editors, Girolamo Tessuto, Vijay K. Bhatia, Giuliana Garzone, Rita Salvi and Christopher Williams.

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

©2016

K213 .C667 2016

9781443889070
1443889075

xxvii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

(OCoLC)945950460

Over recent decades, legal language and its representation of social action, social actors and social practices have provided systematic insights into the meaning and function of text, discourse or talk realised in academic, professional and institutional sites of communication, and generated a variety of data for analysis, method and theory. Constructing Legal Discourses and Social Practices, the first issue of the Legal Discourse and Communication international series, looks descriptively and interpretatively at the realised forms of legal discourse and how these are framed and organised by social practices within distinctive sites of legal communication. The four main parts of the book provide a broad coverage of key issues and perspectives arising from a variety of genres (spoken, as well as written) employed in institutional, professional and organisational communication of the law, and bring into focus recent research where language and law play out in the real world. This invaluable book is multi-dimensional and multi-perspectival in its design and implementation, and will be an essential reference for those researching and working in the areas of applied linguistics and for postgraduate students.-- Provided by Publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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