Peter Meijes Tiersma
Biographic Data
| ID | 744399 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Meijes Tiersma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter Meijes |
| FAMILY NAME | Tiersma |
| SIGNATURE | TIERSMA P M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Law, Loyola Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Oxford handbook of language and law
The Linguist on the Witness Stand: Forensic Linguistics in American Courts
It is becoming increasingly common for linguists to testify as expert witnesses in both civil and criminal trials. Often linguistic expertise is clearly helpful to the judge or jury. Based on published judicial opinions, from which we draw our data, it appears that courts have allowed linguists to testify on such issues as the probable origin of a speaker, the comprehensibility of a text, whether a particular defendant understood the Miranda warn…
The Language of Offer and Acceptance: Speech Acts and the Question of Intent
The Language of Offer and Acceptance: Speech Acts and the Question of IntentLanguage and law interact in a number of ways, the most obvious of which is that laws are expressed in language.Lawyers often look at language to determine the meaning of specific statutes.In such a relatively artificial context, words are chosen and interpreted with unusual care.But elsewhere, the law must interpret utterances of a more spontaneous sort, where the actual…
Frisian
Local and General Markedness
The work of Jakobson—and later, of Greenberg—has developed the notion of MORPHOLOGICAL MARKEDNESS. In this view, certain morphological categories (e.g. noun singulars) are considered unmarked or more basic in relation to others (e.g. noun plurals). It is shown here that there are some principled exceptions to the general markedness conventions. One example of such LOCAL MARKEDNESS, as this type of markedness reversal will be called, is that nouns…
The nature of f and v in Frisian and Marathi
Local and General Markedness
The work of Jakobson—and later, of Greenberg—has developed the notion of MORPHOLOGICAL MARKEDNESS. In this view, certain morphological categories (e.g. noun singulars) are considered unmarked or more basic in relation to others (e.g. noun plurals). It is shown here that there are some principled exceptions to the general markedness conventions. One example of such LOCAL MARKEDNESS, as this type of markedness reversal will be called, is that nouns…
The Linguist on the Witness Stand: Forensic Linguistics in American Courts
It is becoming increasingly common for linguists to testify as expert witnesses in both civil and criminal trials. Often linguistic expertise is clearly helpful to the judge or jury. Based on published judicial opinions, from which we draw our data, it appears that courts have allowed linguists to testify on such issues as the probable origin of a speaker, the comprehensibility of a text, whether a particular defendant understood the Miranda warn…
The Language of Offer and Acceptance: Speech Acts and the Question of Intent
The Language of Offer and Acceptance: Speech Acts and the Question of IntentLanguage and law interact in a number of ways, the most obvious of which is that laws are expressed in language.Lawyers often look at language to determine the meaning of specific statutes.In such a relatively artificial context, words are chosen and interpreted with unusual care.But elsewhere, the law must interpret utterances of a more spontaneous sort, where the actual…
The nature of f and v in Frisian and Marathi
Local and General Markedness
The work of Jakobson—and later, of Greenberg—has developed the notion of MORPHOLOGICAL MARKEDNESS. In this view, certain morphological categories (e.g. noun singulars) are considered unmarked or more basic in relation to others (e.g. noun plurals). It is shown here that there are some principled exceptions to the general markedness conventions. One example of such LOCAL MARKEDNESS, as this type of markedness reversal will be called, is that nouns…
Frisian
The Language of Offer and Acceptance: Speech Acts and the Question of Intent
The Language of Offer and Acceptance: Speech Acts and the Question of IntentLanguage and law interact in a number of ways, the most obvious of which is that laws are expressed in language.Lawyers often look at language to determine the meaning of specific statutes.In such a relatively artificial context, words are chosen and interpreted with unusual care.But elsewhere, the law must interpret utterances of a more spontaneous sort, where the actual…
The Linguist on the Witness Stand: Forensic Linguistics in American Courts
It is becoming increasingly common for linguists to testify as expert witnesses in both civil and criminal trials. Often linguistic expertise is clearly helpful to the judge or jury. Based on published judicial opinions, from which we draw our data, it appears that courts have allowed linguists to testify on such issues as the probable origin of a speaker, the comprehensibility of a text, whether a particular defendant understood the Miranda warn…
The Oxford handbook of language and law
Linguistics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Law (2 works) · Law in Society and Culture (2 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Applied linguistics (1 works) · Civil law (Civil law) (1 works)