This bibliography contains some of the more important books on language and law. The list uses both legal and linguistic citation formats, but there should be enough information in all cases to find any relevant source.
Bibliography
of Books on Language and Law
This bibliography contains some of
the more
important books
on language and law. The
list uses both legal and linguistic citation formats, but there
should be enough information in all cases to find any relevant source.
Articles are not included because the list would become too long.
For a good listing that includes articles, go to the IAFL website.
Entries are in alphabetical order.
If you know
of other books (not single
articles in journals)
that should be included, especially materials not in English, please
send the relevant information to Peter.Tiersma@lls.edu
Adler, Mark. Clarity for Lawyers.
London: Law Society. 2nd ed., 2007.
Alcaraz Varó, Enrique, Miguel Angel
Campos Pardillos, & Cynthia Miguélez. El Inglés
Jurídico Norteamericano. Barcelona:
Ariel. 3rd ed., 2006.
Asprey, Michèle M. Plain Language for Lawyers. 2d ed. Leichhardt, N.S.W.: The Federation Press, 1996.
Atkinson, J. Maxwell, and Paul Drew. Order in the Court: The Organization of Verbal Behavior in Judicial Settings. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1979.Baldwin, John & Peter French. Forensic Phonetics. London: Pinter, 1990.
Bennett, W.L. & M.S. Feldman, Reconstructing Reality in the Courtroom. London: Tavistock Publications, 1981.
Berk‑Seligson, Susan. The Bilingual Courtroom Court Interpreters in the Judicial Process, 2002.Bhatia, Vijay, Christopher Candlin, Maurizio
Gotti (eds). Legal Discourse in Multilingual and Multicultural
Contexts:
Arbitration Texts in Europe. Bern: Peter Lang, 2003.
Bhatia, Vijay K., Jan Engberg, Maurizio Gotti,
Dorothee Heller (eds). Vagueness in Normative Texts. Bern: Peter Lang,
2005.
Bhatia, Vijay, Christopher Candlin, and Jan
Engberg. Legal Discourse across Cultures and Systems. Hong
Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008.
Bix, Brian. Law, Language, and Legal
Determinacy. Oxford: Clarendon, 1993.
Bosmajian, Haig. Metaphor and Reason in Judicial Opinions. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992.
Bowers, Frederick. Linguistic Aspects of
Legislative
Expression. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1989.
Busse, Dietrich. Juristische Semantik:
Grundfragen der juristischen Interpretationslehre in
Sprachwissenschaflicher Sicht. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot,
1993.
Cao, Deborah. Translating Law.
Clevedon/Buffalo/Toronto: Multilingual Matters, 2007.
Cavagnoli, Stefania, & Woelk, Jens.
Einfiihrung in die italienische Rechtssprache Introduzione
all'italiano giuridico. Munich/Vienna/Bern: Beck, 1997.
Chiocchetti, Elena, & Leonhard
Volmer. Harmonizing Legal Terminology. Bolzano: Eurac
Research, 2008.
Colin, Joan, & Ruth
Morris. Interpreters and the Legal Process. Winchester:
Waterside Press, 1996.
Collier, Charles W. Meaning in
the Law: A Theory of Speech. Oxford: University Press, 2009.
Conley, John M., and William M. O'Barr. Rules versus Relationships: The Ethnography of Legal Discourse. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
Conley,
John M., and William M. O'Barr. Just
Words: Law, Language, and Power. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Coode, George. On Legislative Expression, or
the Language of Written Law. London: William Benning and Co., 1845
(also available at: http://books.google.com/books).
Cornu, G. Linguistique Juridique.
Paris: Montchrétien, 2000.
Cotterill, Janet. (ed.) Language in the legal process. Hampshire, U.K.: Palgrave, 2002.
Cotterill, Janet. Language and Power in Court : A Linguistic Analysis of the O.J. Simpson Trial. Houndmills: Plagrave, 2003.Cotterill, Janet. (ed.) The Language of
Sexual Crime. Houndmills: Palgrave. 2007.
Coulthard, Malcolm,
and Alison Johnson. An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics:
Language in Evidence. Routledge, 2007.
Crystal, David, and Derek Davy. Investigating English Style. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1969.
Dickerson, Reed. The Interpretation and
Application of
Statutes. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1975.
Didier, E. Langues et Langages du
Droit: Etude comparive des Modes d'Expression de la Common Law et du
Droit Civil, en Français et en Anglais. Montéal:
Themis, 1990.
Dommarski, William. In the Opinion of
the Court. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996.
Duarte i Montserrat, C., & A. Martinez. El Lenguaje Juridico. Buenos Aires: A‑Z editora, 1995.
Eades, Diana (ed.).
Language in Evidence: Linguistic and Legal Perspectives in
Multicultural
Australia. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1995.
Eades, Diana. Courtroom Talk and Neocolonial
Control. Berlin: DeGruyter, 2008.
Eades. Diana. Sociolinguistics and the
Legal Process. Briston: Multilingual Matters, 2010.
Edwards, A.B. The Practice of Court
Interpreting. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1995.
Ehrlich, Susan. Representing Rape: Language and Sexual Consent. London: Routledge, 2001.
Elwork, Amiram, Bruce D. Sales, and James J. Alfini. Making Jury Instructions Understandable. Charlottesville, Va.: The Michie Co., 1982.
Flesch, Rudolf. How to Write Plain English: A Book for Lawyers and Consumers. New York: Harper and Row, 1979.
Foster, Donald. Author unknown: on the trail
of
Anonymous. New York: Henry Holt, 2000.
Freedman, Adam. The Party of the First
Part: The Curious World of Legalese. New York: Henry Holt &
Co., 2007.
Gaiba, Francesca. The Origins of
Simultaneous Interpretation: The Nuremberg Trial. Ottawa:
University of Ottawa Press, 1998.
Galdia, Marcus. Legal
Linguistics. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2009.
Garner,
Bryan A. A Dictionary of Modern Legal
Usage. 2d ed.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Garner, Bryan (ed.). Black's Law
Dictionary (various editions).
Gémar, J-C, & N. Kasirer
(eds). Jurilinguistique. Montéal:
Themis, 2004.
Gibbons, John (ed.). Language and the Law. London and New York: Longman, 1994.
Gibbons,
John, et al. (eds). Language in the Law. New Delhi: Orient
Longman, 2004.
Gibbons, John, and M. Teresa Turell
(eds).
Dimensions of Forensic Linguistics. Benjamins, 2008.
Goodrich, Peter. Languages of Law: From Logics of Memory to Nomadic Masks. London: Weidenfeld, 1990.
Goodrich, Peter.
Legal Discourse. London: Macmillan, 1987.
Grewendorf, Günther & Monika Rathert
(eds.). Formal
Linguistics and Law. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2009.
Grisso, Thomas. Instruments for
Assessing, Understanding, and Appreciation of Miranda Rights.
Sarasota, FL: Professional Resource Press.
Gustafsson,
Marita. Some Syntactic Properties
of English Law
Language. University of Turku, Publications of the Department of
English, 1975.
Hale, Sandra. The Discourse of Court
Interpreting. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2004.
Hänlein, Heike. Studies in
Authorship Recognition: A Corpus-based Approach. Frankfurt: Peter
Lang, 1999.
Harris, Roy, and Christopher Hutton.
Definition in Theory and Practice: Language, Lexicography and the
Law. London: Continuum, 2007.
Hass-Unkehr, U (ed). Sprache und
Recht. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2002.
Heffer, Chris. The Language of Jury
Trial: A Corpus-Aided Analysis of Legal-Lay Discourse.
Houndsmill: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Heydon, Georgina. The Language of
Police Interviewing: A Critical Analysis. Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2005.
Hiltunen, Risto. Chapters on Legal English: Aspects Past and Present of the Language of the Law. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1990.
Hollien, Harry. The
Acoustics
of Crime: The New Science of Forensic Phonetics. New York, NY: Plenum,
1990.
Hollien, Harry. Forensic Voice
Identification. London: Academic Press, 2002.
Hotta, Syûgo. Saiban to Kotoba no
Tikara (Litigations and the Power of Language). Tokyo: Hituzi Syoboo,
2009.
Hotta, Syûgo. Hoo Kontekusuto niokeru
Gengo-Siyoo no Rironteki-Zissyooteki Kenkyuu (A Theoretical and
Empirical Study of Language Use in Legal Context). Tokyo: Hituzi Syoboo
(to appear in March, 2010).
Hutton, Chris. Language,
Meaning and the Law. Edinburgh: University Press, 2009.
Jackson, Bernard S. Making Sense in Law:
Linguistic,
Psychological and Semiotic Perspectives. Liverpool: Deborah Charles
Publications, 1995.
Jackson, Bernard S. Semiotics and Legal
Theory. London: Routledge, 1985.
Jacquemet, M.
Credibility in Court: Communicative practices in the Camorra
trials.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966.
Klinck, Dennis R. The Word of the Law:
Approaches to Legal
Discourse. Ottawa: Carlton University Press, 1992.
Kniffka, Hannes. Texte zur Theorie und
Praxis forensischer Linguistik. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1990.
Kniffka, Hannes (ed.), Recent Developments in Forensic Linguistics.
Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1996.
Kniffka, Hannes. Working in Language and Law. A German Perspective. Palgrave McMillan, 2007.
Komter, Martha L. Dilemmas in the Courtroom: A Study of Trials of Violent Crime in the Netherlands. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1998.Kurzon,
Dennis. It Is Hereby Performed:
Explorations in
Legal Speech Acts. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co., 1986.
Kurzon, Dennis. A Tale of Two Remedies:
Equity, Verb Aspect and the Whorfian Hypothesis. Liverpool:
Deborah Charles, 1998.
Lakoff, Robin Tolmach. Talking
Power: The
Politics of
Language. Basic Books, 1990.
Laster, K, & V. Taylor.
Interpreters and the Legal System. Sydney: Federation Press, 1994.
Lerch, Kent D. (ed). Recht verstehen.
Verständlichkeit, Missverständlichkeit und
Unverständlichkeit von Recht. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter,
2004.
Levi, Judith N., and Anne Graffam Walker.
Language in the
Judicial Process. New York and London: Plenum Press, 1990.
Levi, Judith N. Language and Law: A
Bibliographic Guide to Social Science Research in the U.S.A.
Chicago: American Bar Association, 1994.
Lewis, Robyn. Cyfiawnder
Dwyieithog? Bilingual Justice. Llandysul: Gomer, 1998.
Liao, Meizhen. A Study of Questions,
Responses and their Interaction in Chinese Courtroom Discourse (in
Chinese). Beijing: Law Press, 2003.
Liao, Meizhen. Trial Communication
Strategies (in Chinese). Beijing: Law Press, 2005.
Love, Harold. Attributing Authorship:
An Introduction. Cambridge: University Press, 2002.
Maryns, Katrijn. The Asylum Speaker: Language
in the Belgian Asylum Procedure. Manchester: St. Jerome
Publishing, 2006.
Martineau, Robert J. Drafting Legislation and Rules in Plain English. St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Co., 1991.
Matoesian, Gregory M. Law and the Language of Identity: Discourse in the William Kennedy Smith Rape Trial. Oxford, University Press, 2001.
Matoesian, Gregory. Reproducing Rape: Domination through Talk in the Courtroom. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1993.
Mattila,
Heikki E.S. Comparative Legal Linguistics. Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2006.
Maynard, Douglas W. Inside Plea Bargaining:
The Language of
Negotiation. New York: Plenum Press, 1984.
Mayr, Andrea. Prison Discourse:
Language as a Means of Control and Resistance. Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
McMenamin, Gerald. R.
Forensic Stylistics. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1993.
McMenamin, Gerald. Forensic
Linguistics: Advances in Forensic Stylistics. Boca Raton and
London: CRC Press, 2002.
Mead, Richard. Courtroom
Discourse. Birmingham: ELR, 1985.
Mellinkoff, David. Language of the Law. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1963.
Mertz,
Elizabeth. The Language of Law
School: Learning to "Think Like a Lawyer." Oxford: University Press,
2007.
Mikkelson, Holly. Introduction to Court
Interpreting. Manchester: St. Jerome Publishing, 2000.
Moeketsi, Rosemary. Discourse in a
Multilingual and Multicultural Courtroom: A Court Interpreter's
Guide. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik, 1999.
Mohanty, Ajit K.,
Minati Panda, Robert Phillipson, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (eds.).
Multilingual Education for Social Justice: Globalising the Local.
Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan, 2009.
Murry, Glenn Edward, & Gary
Muldoon. Criminal Law Slanguage of New York.
Charlottesville, VA: Gould Publications, 3rd ed., 2004.
Ng, Kwai Hang. The
Common Law in Two Voices: Language, Law, and the Post-Colonial Dilemma
in Hong Kong. Stanford University Press, 2009.
Nolan, Frances. The Phonetic Bases of Speaker Recognition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
O'Barr, William M. Linguistic Evidence:
Language, Power, and
Strategy in the Courtroom. San Diego:
Academic Press, 1982.
Okawara, Mami Hiraike. Shimin kara Mita
Saiban-in Saiban (The Mixed Court Viewed Through Lay People).
Tokyo: Akashi Shoten, 2008.
Okawara, Mami Hiraike. Saiban Omoshiro Kotoba Gaku (Peculiar
Legal Language Studies). Tokyo: Taishukan, 2009.
Olsen, Frances, Alexander Lorz, and Dieter
Stein. Law and Language: Theory and Society. Düsseldorf:
Düsseldorf University Press, 2008.
Olsson,
John. Forensic Linguistics: An Introduction to Language, Crime
and Law. London: Continuum, 2004.
Olsson, John. Word Crime: Solving Crime
Through Forensic Linguistics. London: Continuum, 2009.
Orts-Llopis, Maria de los Angeles.
Approximacion al Discurso Juridico en Ingles. Madrid:
Edisofer, 2006.
Panaretou, E. Nomi ke kanones dikeu: glossika
kai kimenika xara¬ktiristika [Laws and Legal Rules:
Linguistic and Textual features].
Athens: Parousia, 2005.
Panaretou, E. Nomikos logos:
glossa ke domi ton nomon [Legal Discourse: Language and Structure of
Law]. Athens: Papazisis, 2009.
Pardo, Maria Laura. Derecho y
Lingiiística: Como se Juzga con Palabras. Buenos Aires:
Ediciones Nueva Vista, 1996.
Philbrick, Frederick A. Language and the Law: The Semantics of Forensic English. New York: Macmillan, 1949.
Philips, Susan U.
Ideology in the Language of Judges.
Oxford, University Press, 1998.
Phillips, Alfred. Lawyers' Language:
How and Why Legal Language is Different. London and New York:
Routledge, 2003.
Rathert, Monika: Sprache und Recht.
Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter. 100 pages. (Series Kurze
Einführungen in die Germanistische Linguistik, 2006).
Richland, Justin B. Arguing with
Tradition: The Language of Law in Hopi Tribal Court. Chicago:
Univ. of Chicago Press, 2008.
Rieber, Robert and William Stewart (eds.). The language scientist as expert in the legal setting. New York: Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1990.
Robinson, Marlyn (ed.).
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Rock, Frances. Communicating Rights:
The
Language of Arrest and Detention. Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2007.
Sarat, Austin, & Thomas R. Kearns
(eds). The Rhetoric of the Law. Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan Press, 1996.
Sarcevic, Susan. New Approach to Legal
Translation. The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1997, 2000.
Sarcevic, Susan.
Legal Language in Action: Translation, Terminology, Drafting and
Procedural Issues. Nakladni zavod Globus, Zagreb, 2009.
Schane, Sanford. Language and the
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Schauer, Frederick (ed). Law and Language. New York: University Press, 1993.
Shuy, Roger W. The language of confession, interrogation and deception. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998.Shuy, Roger W.
Language Crimes: The Use and Abuse of Language Evidence in the
Courtroom. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 1993.
Shuy, Roger W. Bureaucratic Language in Government and Business. Washington DC: Georgetown Univ. Press, 1998.
Shuy,
Roger W. Linguistic Battles in Trademark Disputes.
Houndmills: Palgrave, 2002.
Shuy, Roger W. Creating Language Crimes. Oxford: University Press, 2005.
Shuy, Roger W. Linguistics in the Courtroom: A Practical Guide. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2006.
Shuy, Roger W. Fighting Over
Words:
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Shuy, Roger W. The Language
of Defamation Cases. Oxford: University Press, 2010.
Singer, Norman J. Sutherland Statutory
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Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove, Robert
Phillipson, Ajit K. Mohanty, Minati Panda (eds.). Social Justice
Through Multilingual Education. Bristol (U.K.): Multilingual
Matters, 2009.
Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove and Dunbar, Robert.
Indigenous Children’s Education as Linguistic Genocide and a Crime
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Socanac, Lelija, Christopher
Goddard, Ludger Kremer. Curriculum, Multilingualism and the Law,
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Solan, Lawrence M. The Language of Judges. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Solan, Lawrence M, and Peter M. Tiersma. Speaking of Crime: The Language of Criminal Justice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Steinberg, Edwin R. (ed.). Plain English: Principles and Practice. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991.
Stygall, Gail. Trial Language: Differential
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Taszlitz, Andrew. Rape and the Culture
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Tiersma, Peter M.
Legal Language. Chicago:
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Travers, Max, & John F. Manzo. Law
in Action: Ethnomethodological and Conversation Analytic Approaches to
Law. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997.
Trinch, Shonna L. Latinas' Narratives
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Trosborg, Anna. Rhetorical Strategies in
Legal Language: Discourse Analysis of Statutes and Contracts.
Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag. 1997.
Turell, M. Teresa (ed.).
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Turell, M. Teresa, Maria Spassova, &
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Van Rossum, Wibo. Verschijnen voor de
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Wagner, Anne. La Langue de la Common
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Wagner, Anne, and Sophie
Cacciaguidi-Fahy.
Obscurity and Clarity in the Law: Prospects and Challenges. Abingdon:
Ashgate, 2008.
Wagner, Anne, and Vijay K. Bhatia, eds. Diversity and Tolerance in Socio-Legal Contexts: Explorations in the semiotics of law. Abingdon: Ashgate, 2009.
Walter, Bettyruth. The Jury Summation as Speech Genre: An Ethnographic Study of What It Means to Those Who Use It. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co., 1988.
Winter, Stephen L. A Clearing in the
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Yankova, Diana. Statutory Provisions in
English and Bulgarian. Sofia: Tip-Top Press, 2004.
Yankova, Diana. The Text and Context of
European Directives. Translation Issues in Approximating Legislation.
Sofia: Sofia University Press, 2008.