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ean: 9780807892138, isbn: 0807892130,

This work is a valuable addition to understanding issues of the press and censorship in France. Rodmell's introduction emphasizes publication problems faced by writers in eighteenth- century France. This edition includes Malesherbes's first and second Memoire, to which Rodmell adds seventeen pages of notes. In his Memoire, Malesherbes suggests changes to the book trade and condemns censorship's arbitrary nature. Rodmell's introductory analysis proposes that Malesherbes wanted to make censorship

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mpn: Illustrations, ean: 9789964302269, isbn: 9964302266,

Ewe is one of the major languages of Ghana. The Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Ghana here provides a book about the language as such. He intends it as more than a textbook, and has written it at a level to be of use to both native speakers of Ewe andthose for whom it is not their mother tongue, providing relevantlinguistic insights. After an introduction to the relatives and dialects,phonology is covered: syllables, consonants, vowels, and tones.

ean: 9780804768979, isbn: 0804768978,

This book is a continuation of Giorgio Agamben's investigation of political theory, which began with the highly influential volume Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Having already traced the roots of the idea of sovereignty, sacredness, and economy, he now turns to a perhaps unlikely topic: the concept of the oath. Following the Italian scholar Paolo Prodi, Agamben sees the oath as foundational for Western politics and undertakes an exploration of the roots of the phenomenon of the

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ean: 9781422418208, isbn: 1422418200,

This book has two main purposes. The first is to explain how lawyers construct legal arguments. It is meant to be a purely practical guide to the process by which lawyers take the raw materials of litigation cases, statutes, testimony, documents, common sense and mold them into instruments of persuasive advocacy. The book's second purpose is to explain how to take a well-constructed legal argument and present it, in writing, in a way that legal decision makers will find persuasive. The

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ean: 9781531008642, isbn: 153100864X,

This is Joseph Kimble's second book of essays. The first, published in 2006, was acclaimed as ''superb,'' invaluable,'' and ''a treasure.'' Seeing Through Legalese collects his more recent writings and promises to be equally good. Kimble, now a distinguished professor emeritus, is a leading figure in the international effort to bring a clearer, plainer style to legal writing and drafting. Every lawyer, law student, legislative drafter, and legal scholar will benefit from these essays. They are

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ean: 9781138606432, isbn: 113860643X,

This book introduces and explores the concept of multilingual law. Providing an overview as to what is 'multilingual law', the study establishes a new discourse based on this concept, which has hitherto lacked recognition for reasons of complexity and multidisciplinarity. The need for such a discourse now exists and is becoming urgent in view of the progress being made towards European integration and the legal and factual foundation for it in multilingualism and multilingual legislation.

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ean: 9781250144539, isbn: 1250144531,

There’s a crisis of trust in politics across the western world. Public anger is rising and faith in conventional political leaders and parties is falling. Anti-politics, and the anti-politicians, have arrived. In Enough Said, President and CEO of The New York Times Company Mark Thompson argues that one of the most significant causes of the crisis is the way our public language has changed. Enough Said tells the story of how we got from the language of FDR and Churchill to that of Donald

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ean: 9781137017949, isbn: 9781137017949,

What is legal language and where is it found? What does a forensic linguist do? How can linguistic skills help legal professionals?We are constantly surrounded by legal language, but sometimes it is almost impossible to understand. Providing extracts from real-life legal cases, this highly usable and accessible textbook brims with helpful examples and activities that will help you to navigate this area.Language and Law:• introduces useful linguistic concepts and tools • outlines the methods

ean: 9781717140098, isbn: 9781717140098,

Master your emotions effectively!Achieve greater success in your personal and professional life!Enjoy more rewarding and fulfilling relationships!All of these are possible by developing and growing you emotional intelligence (EQ). Recent studies have confirmed that emotional intelligence is an imperative skill for outperforming in every aspect of life. Emotional intelligence directly impacts the way we formulate personal decisions, the way we mange behavior and our ability to maneuver through

ean: 9780982316665, isbn: 0982316666,

This workbook accompanies the training manual, The Language of Justice: Interpreting for Legal Services. It offers interpreters and trainers a chance to practice some of the skills taught in The Language of Justice. Like the training manual, the workbook focuses on the U.S. legal system. Yet almost all the lessons drawn apply broadly in many countries. This valuable resource follows The Language of Justice curriculum and gives interpreters the opportunity to hone their skills with: - Over a

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mpn: black & white tables, ean: 9780472032068, isbn: 0472032062,

Law is a profession that requires the ability to read critically, write well, synthesize sources from research, and speak concisely and clearly. American Legal English was developed to help non-native speakers improve their ability to understand and communicate in English with their legal counterparts around the world. The text is an introduction to basic legal information and the U.S. legal system that addresses the major areas of law and provides actual cases and statutes so that students can

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ean: 9780226767963, isbn: 9780226767963,

Pulling the rug out from debates about interpretation, The Language of Statutes joins together learning from law, linguistics, and cognitive science to illuminate the fundamental issues and problems in this highly contested area. Here, Lawrence M. Solan argues that statutory interpretation is alive, well, and not in need of the major overhaul that many have suggested. Rather, he suggests, the majority of people understand their rights and obligations most of the time, with difficult cases

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Legal interpreting is dangerous in the hands of amateurs. Protect yourself, your clients, interpreters and legal outcomes. Purchase this manual for a legal interpreter or bilingual employee who performs legal interpreting outside the courtroom. This textbook is also extremely useful for legal interpreter trainers. This publication will help interpreters who interpret for: - Worker's compensation and disability medical exams - School board hearings - Domestic violence hearings - Torture and

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ean: 9780812244489, isbn: 0812244486,

Human rights language is abstract and ahistorical because advocates intend human rights to be valid at all times and places. Yet the abstract universality of human rights discourse is a problem for historians, who seek to understand language in a particular time and place. Lora Wildenthal explores the tension between the universal and the historically specific by examining the language of human rights in West Germany between World War II and unification. In the aftermath of Nazism, genocide,

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ean: 9781783099962, isbn: 1783099968,

This collection of empirical work offers an in-depth exploration of key issues in the education of adolescents and adults with refugee backgrounds, residing in North America, Australia and Europe. These studies foreground student goals, experiences and voices, and reflect a high degree of awareness of the assets that refugee-background students bring to schools and broader society. Chapters are clustered according to the two themes of Language and Literacy, and Access and Equity. Each chapter

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ean: 9780199245550, isbn: 019924555X,

These previously unpublished essays share the central theme of logical form--a fundamental issue in analytic philosophy and linguistic theory. Logical Form and Language brings together exciting new contributions from diverse points of view, which illuminate the lively current debate about this topic.Used Book in Good Condition.

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ean: 9781107623118, isbn: 1107623111,

Language policy is a topic of growing importance around the world, as issues such as the recognition of linguistic diversity, the establishment of official languages, the status of languages in educational systems, the status of heritage and minority languages, and speakers' legal rights have come increasingly to the forefront. One fifth of the American population do not speak English as their first language. While race, gender and religious discrimination are recognized as illegal, the US does

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ean: 9780230001701, isbn: 023000170X,

Drawing together a diverse but focused group of international researchers for the first time in a single volume, The Language of Sexual Crime explores the role of language in the construction of identity of both perpetrators and victims of sexual violence, the ways in which language is used in the detection of sexually-motivated crime, and the articulation/manipulation of language in police interviews, the courtroom and the media.Palgrave MacMillan.

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ean: 9781107130784, isbn: 1107130786,

If the task of constitutional theory is to set out a language in which the discourse of constitutional law may be grounded, a question of the utmost importance is how this terminology is created, defined and interpreted. In this groundbreaking new work, András Jakab maps out and analyses the grammar and vocabulary on which the core European traditions of constitutional theory are based. He suggests understanding key constitutional concepts as responses to historical and present day challenges

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