[HTML][HTML] The role of culture in legal languages, legal interpretation and legal translation

A Piszcz, H Sierocka - International Journal for the Semiotics of Law …, 2020 - Springer
The aim of this short essay is to highlight and concisely explore—but not address in depth—
some cultural aspects related to legal languages, legal interpretation and legal translation …

Problems of translating legal contracts: perspectives of Saudi translation students

N Alshaikh - J. Pol. & L., 2022 - HeinOnline
Legal translation is one of the challenging domains for translation students. In Saudi Arabia,
university translation students are reported to encounter difficulties while translating legal …

Signalling intertextuality in business emails

M Warren - English for specific purposes, 2016 - Elsevier
This study looks at the contribution of intertextuality to a text's coherence by examining the
ways in which writers make use of recurrent words and phrases to signal instances of …

[HTML][HTML] The journey to comprehensibility: Court forms as the first barrier to accessing justice

T Grieshofer née Tkacukova, M Gee… - International Journal for the …, 2021 - Springer
The article explores the comprehensibility of court forms by providing a quantitative overview
and a qualitative analysis of such syntactic characteristics as length and structure of …

Identity construction of suspects in telecom and internet fraud discourse: from a sociosemiotic perspective

N Ye, L Cheng, Y Zhao - Social Semiotics, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
As a new kind of contactless crime, the telecom and internet fraud has become a public
hazard, with criminals targeting massive numbers of innocent victims. It is a prominent …

What defines the victims of human rights violations? The case of the Comité Pro Paz and Vicaría de la Solidaridad in Chile (1973–1992)

O Bernasconi, M Ruiz, E Lira - The Politics of Victimhood in Post-conflict …, 2018 - Springer
Unlike most experiences of politically motivated state violence, the military dictatorship that
took place in Chile (1973–1990) was contested throughout the regime through the work of …

The YouTube-induced sequential categorization of the topical device of Amber Heard's “lies”: an ethnomethodological forensic-linguistic perspective

AHY Salama, RM Fawzy - International Journal of Legal Discourse, 2023 - degruyter.com
The present study seeks to untangle the courtroom trial's sequential categorization of the
topical device of Amber Heard's 'lies' as YouTubed by the Daily Mail. Towards this end, the …

The importance of being heard: Stories of unrepresented litigants in small claims cases and private family proceedings

T Grieshofer - Language and Law/Linguagem e Direito, 2022 - open-access.bcu.ac.uk
The article explores narrativisation practices in small claims cases and private family
proceedings, focusing predominantly on cases where at least one of the parties is not …

[PDF][PDF] Intralingual Interpreting in the Courtroom: An ethnographic study of Deaf interpreters' perceptions of their role and positioning

C Tester - PhD dissertationm, Gallaudet University, 2021 - researchgate.net
Courtroom interpreting is an institutionally situated activity and involves multiple
stakeholders, including the interpreter (Angelelli, 2004; Mikkelson, 2008). This study …

A performative and genealogical approach to the liminal subject's social sustenance: the case of the disappeared detainees in Chile

O Bernasconi, M Ruiz - Subjectivity, 2018 - Springer
This paper focuses on subject's figuration in the case of existences that are suspended and
in question. Examining the disappeared detainee of the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile (1973 …