Speaking of language and law : conversations on the work of Peter Tiersma /
edited by Lawrence M. Solan, Janet Ainsworth, and Roger W. Shuy.
- xix, 306 pages ; 25 cm.
- Oxford studies in language and law .
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
On the origins of legal English / Peter M. Tiersma -- Why is legal language so conservative? / Peter M. Tiersma -- Writing the law in England / Peter M. Tiersma -- Some myths about legal language / Peter M. Tiersma -- On the relationship between legal and ordinary language / Frederick Schauer -- Legal language and its history : quo imus? qua imus? / Ronald R. Butters -- Philosophical hermeneutics in the age of pixels : Hans-Georg Gadamer, Peter Tiersma, and Dasein in the age of the internet / Frank S. Ravitch -- The language of lawyers and the language of plumbers / Edward Finegan -- Words, words, words : but what's in a legal text? / Dieter Stein -- Text, tape and pixels in the making of wills / Peter M. Tiersma -- Reassessing unilateral contracts / Peter M. Tiersma -- Philosophy of language, unilateral contracts, and the law / Brian H. Bix -- How to do legal things with words : the contracts scholarship of Peter Tiersma / Sidney W. DeLong -- Tiersma contra mundum in defence of promises / Peter Goodrich -- Formalism, speech acts, and the realities of contract formation / Jeffrey M. Lipshaw -- The language of silence : implication and the role of conversation / Peter M. Tiersma -- Symbolic destruction / Peter M. Tiersma -- Law's metalinguistics : silence, speech, and action / Elizabeth Mertz -- The sounds of silence / Malcolm Coulthard -- Speech or silence : within and beyond language and law / Meizhen Liao -- The language of consent in rape law / Peter M. Tiersma -- "Inferring" consent in the context of rape and sexual assault / Susan Enrlich -- Felicitous consent / Tim Grant and Kerrie Spaul -- Reflections on Peter Tiersma's "The language and consent in rape law / Gregory M. Matoesian -- Speaking of consent / Gail Stygall -- Dafamatory language and the act of accusing / Peter M. Tiersma -- Defafamation as speech act : a theory that works / John M. Conley -- Applying Tiersma's defamation theory to defamation cases / Roger W. Shuy -- Scarlet letter or badge of honour? Semantic interpretation in changing contexts of culture / Krzysztof Kredens -- Dynamic statutes / Peter M. Tiersma -- The textualization of precedent / Peter M. Tiersma -- Talk about text as text / Lawrence M. Solan -- Textualization, textualism, and purpose-stating preambles / Jeffrey P. Kaplan -- Between paper and pixels : how the form of modern laws changed their function / Dru Stevenso -- The language of perjury : speaking falsely by saying nothing / Peter M. Tiersma -- "Threats" / Lawrence M. Solan and Peter M. Tiersma -- How we play games with words in the law / Janet Ainsworth -- Toward a communicative approach to law- and rule-making / Philip Gaines -- Threats : a pragmalinguistic approach to the analysis of a speech crime / Susan Berk-Seligson -- The judge as linguist / Peter M. Tiersma -- Applied (forensic) linguistics in autochthonic and allochthonic use / Hannes Kniffka -- The sound of silence : Miranda waivers, selective literalism and social context / Richard A. Leo -- Words alone / Laurie L. Levenson -- Sizzling irons : speaking of criminal justice / Frances Rock -- The history of jury instructions / Peter M. Tiersma -- Capital instructions : comprehension as a matter of life or death / Peter M. Tiersma -- Navigating the rocky road / Bethany K. Dumas -- Authority and accommodation : judicial responses to jurors' questions / Chris Heffer -- Jury instructions written for jurors : a perennial challenge / Nancy S. Marder -- Bibliography of Peter Tiersma's work.