Language in the Negotiation of Justice

Contents: Introduction, Christopher Williams and Girolamo Tessuto; Part I Contexts: Litigation: 'Mrs Buckley, you're telling a pack of lies': cross-examination in the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh, William Bromwich; Power in interruption in Chinese criminal courtroom discourse, Meizhen Liao; 'For the reasons given above, I consider the Court should...': a linguistic analysis of argumentation in the opinions of British and Italian advocates-general at the Court of justice of the European Union, Judith Turnbull; Arbitration: International commercial arbitration: a protected practice, Vijay K. Bhatia; Arbitration across genres: from 'private resolution' to 'public war', Isabel Corona; Arbiter ?arbitration. Genesis of a functional word, Natale Rampazzo; Mediation: Restorative justice, a comparative analysis of discursive practices: dialogistic exchanges in the USA and Italy, Lucia Abbamonte and Flavia Cavaliere; Participants' relationships in online dispute-resolution: legal discourse as social practice, Olga Denti and Michela Giordano. Part II Issues: Identity: Negotiating legal identity online: narratives of drug use, Hugo Bowles and Valeria Moretti; Recontextualization: Ethical particularism and contextualist interpretation in impossible attempts, Ross Charnock; Comprehensibility: From primary legislation to public presence. The language of gay rights: from legislation to lobbying, Bronwen Hughes and Antonella Napolitano; Metephor: Shaping reality through metaphorical patterns in legislative texts on immigration: a corpus-assisted approach, Ersilia Incelli. Part III Applications: Legal linguistics as a line of study and an academic discipline, Tarja Salmi-Tolonen; Learning to fly: the prospects for legal linguistics in the academic curriculum and beyond, Christopher Goddard; Index.