Sol Azuelos-Atias
List of John Benjamins publications in which Sol Azuelos-Atias is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1878-9714 | E‑ISSN 1878‑9722
Title
A Pragmatic Analysis of Legal Proofs of Criminal Intent
Sol Azuelos-Atias
A Pragmatic Analysis of Legal Proofs of Criminal Intent is a detailed investigation of proofs of criminal intent in Israeli courtrooms. The book analyses linguistic, pragmatic, interpretative and argumentative strategies used by Israeli lawyers and judges in order to examine the defendant’s… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 25] 2007. x, 180 pp.
Articles
2018 Chapter 5. Making legal language clear to legal laypersons Legal Pragmatics, Kurzon, Dennis and Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky (eds.), pp. 101–116 | Chapter
It is widely accepted that the legal sub-language – the language of the written law, court discussions, and legal documents – needs rephrasing in order to make it understandable to legal laypersons. Adler (2012) holds that this is possible: legal texts can be rephrased in plain language (rather… read more
2015 Manipulation by deliberate failure of communication Pragmatics and Society 6:4, pp. 502–516 | Article
This work studies manipulative use of language that can be called “deliberate failure of communication”; I characterize this kind of manipulation and show that it can be found in the discourse of marketing experts and legal professionals. Relying on relevance theory, I show that manipulation of… read more
2009 The rationality of legal argumentation Pragmatics & Cognition 17:2, pp. 383–401 | Article
According to Dascal (1998), controversy is characterised by a special kind of rationality, one result thereof being the unique contribution of this kind of polemics to the growth of knowledge. This, in turn, implies that complete cooperation may be detrimental for the efficiency of communication.… read more