The Context and Media of Legal Discourse
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22870548 |
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| Authors | Christoph A Hafner (0000-0002-9592-8092, City University of Hong Kong, corresponding author), Christoph Hafner (City University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1185-1188 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-30 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Applied Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0142-6001 • E-ISSN: 1477-450X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/applin/amab021 |
| OpenAlex | W3155445195 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
In The Context and Media of Legal Discourse, editors Girolamo Tessuto, Vijay K. Bhatia, Ruth Breeze, Nicholas Brownlees, and Martin Solly, have compiled an insightful collection of scholarly contributions that discuss the role that contextual factors and mediation play in discourse in the legal domain. The editors should be commended for assembling an interdisciplinary set of perspectives, presenting the work of scholars from an impressive range of allied fields, including English for specific purposes, legal linguistics, communication studies, language and translation studies, and literary and cultural studies. Overall, the volume makes a welcome contribution to recent work on specialized discourse that examines discursive innovations in digital contexts (e.g. Kuteeva and Mauranen, 2018; Luzón and Pérez-Llantada, 2019; Hafner and Pun, 2020). It meaningfully adds to this existing work by focusing on the legal domain, with contributions that examine digital forms of legal discourse, legal discursive responses to...
Applied linguistics · Context (archaeology) · Discourse analysis · Linguistics · Mediation · Social science · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · History · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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