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Language and Law
Law serves as the symbol of national power and a tool for maintaining a stable society. Laws are coded in languages and concepts that are used to...
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Language Rights and the Law in Norway
This chapter studies the ways in which Norwegian legislation addresses the language rights of Norwegian-speakers vis-à-vis linguistic minorities in...
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Language Rights and the Law in Sweden
This chapter studies the ways in which Sweden addresses the language rights of the Swedish-speaking majority vis-à-vis linguistic minorities. First,...
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Language Rights and the Law in Denmark
This chapter focuses on the degree of legal protection afforded Danish vis-à-vis linguistic minority groups who do not speak Danish as their native...
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Language Rights and the Law in Greenland
This chapter studies the ways in which Greenland, an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, addresses the language rights of the...
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Language Rights and the Law in Iceland
This chapter focuses on the ways in which Iceland addresses the language rights of the native Icelandic-speaking majority vis-à-vis Icelandic Sign...
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Semiotics, Language and Law: The Linguistic Turn in Jurisprudence
Law and language are closely related. In the latter half of twentieth century, with the development of philosophy studies, western jurisprudence...
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Language Rights and the Law in Scandinavia Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Greenland
This book examines the language policies in the constitutions, legal statutes, and regulations of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, the Faroe...
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Language Rights and the Law in the Faroe Islands
This chapter studies the ways in which the Faroe Islands, an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, addresses the issue of language...
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Choosing is losing: language policy and language choice acts at the asylum law firm
It seems impossible to explain language choice and practice in the multilingual, understudied context of an asylum law firm by simply referring to...
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Thoughts on Standardization of Chinese Legislative Language from the Perspective of Sociology of Law
Legislation is the foundation of the rule of law, and the quality of legislation determines the quality of the rule of law. In the process of...
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Fuzziness and Legislative Language
Generally speaking, it’s difficult for people to associate fuzziness with law, and the emphasis on the fuzziness of legislative language may bring...
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Comparative Legal Translation: Chinese Law and EU Law
Legal translation plays a significant role for Chinese law to form self-expression under the global legal pluralism. The launch of the “Belt and Road...
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Legislative Language
Law is the embodiment of the national will. The purpose of national legislation is to maintain political stability and social order, so as to develop...
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An Overview of Legal Language
The study of legal language should begin with an understanding of the relationship between law and language. The importance of language in the legal...
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Fuzziness and Violation of Norms in Chinese Legislative Language
China has the largest population in the world and is also a major legislation power. Since the reform and opening up more than 30 years ago, people’s...
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On the Standardization of Chinese Legislative Language
By integrating different research angles and methods of philosophy of law, sociology of law, applied linguistics, and legal translation, this book...
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Legal Language Planning in the New Era
With the formation and improvement of the socialist legal system, language problems and language planning in the field of law have become a hot spot...
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Practiced Language Policy in Family Language Policy Research
This chapter examines the concept of ‘practiced language policy’ in the context of the sociolinguistic subfield of ‘Family Language Policy’ (FLP)....
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The Positive Function of Fuzzy Legislative Language and Its Realization
Through analysis of semantics and inevitability of fuzzy legislative language, we know law may or is allowed to be expressed implicitly. In history...