In:Legal Pragmatics
Edited by Dennis Kurzon and Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 288] 2018
► pp. vii–viii
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Table of contents
Introduction
1
Dennis Kurzon
Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky
Part 1.Historical pragmatics
19
Chapter 1.Pleading for life: Narrative patterns within legal petitions (Salem, 1692)
21
Kathleen L. Doty
Chapter 2.“How came you not to cry out?”: Pragmatic effects of negative questioning in child rape trials in the Old Bailey Proceedings 1730–1798
41
Alison Johnson
Chapter 3.Implicatures in Early Modern English courtroom records
65
Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky
Chapter 4.Literal interpretation and political expediency: The case of Sir Thomas More
81
Dennis Kurzon
Part 2.Pragmatics of legal writing and documents
99
Chapter 5.Making legal language clear to legal laypersons
101
Sol Azuelos-Atias
Chapter 6.Interpreting or in legal texts
117
Jacqueline Visconti
Part 3.
Discourse in the courtroom and in police investigation
131
Chapter 7.The nature of power and control in the interrogative patterns of selected Nigerian courtroom discourse
133
Oluwasola Aina
Anthony E. Anowu
Tunde Opeibi
Chapter 8.The language of Egyptian interrogations: A study of suspects’ resistance to implicatures and presuppositions in prosecution questions
157
Neveen Al Saeed
Chapter 9.Achieving influence through negotiation: An argument for developing pragmatic awareness
181
Dawn Archer
Rebecca Smithson
Ian Kennedy
Chapter 10.“I really don’t know because I’m stupid”: Unpacking suggestibility in investigative interviews
203
Ikuko Nakane
Part 4.Legal discourse and multilingualism
229
Chapter 11.Questions of invariance and context-dependence of legal notions in multilingual settings
231
Tarja Salmi-Tolonen
Chapter 12.Contextuality of interpretation in non-monolingual jurisdictions: The Canadian experience
257
Diana Yankova
Index
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