Transparency, Power, and Control : Perspectives on Legal Communication (Hardcover)

Contents: Preface; Transparency, power, and control in legal communication, Vijay K. Bhatia, Christoph A. Hafner, Lindsay Miller and Anne Wagner; Part I Theorizing Transparency, Control and Power in Legal Communication: Linguistic uncertainty and legal transparency: statutory interpretation in China and Australia, Deborah Cao; The power of legal conditionals in international contracts, Celina Frade; The directive and persuasive style of a legislative speech act and the transformations thereof (illustrated with the Polish legal discourse), Irena Szczepankowska; Zorkin v. Morschakova: legal dispute in rhetorical terms, Anita Soboleva; A dialogical and polyphonic approach to contract theory, Andre Belanger and Andy van Drom; What EU legislative texts reveal about power, control and transparency, Colin Robertson; Towards an objective means of measuring governmental legitimacy, M. Douglass Bellis. Part II Visualizing and Contextualizing Transparency, Power and Control: Battle of the sexters: teens celling sex in a world wide web of conflicting laws, values and social norms, Michelle L. Wirth; Visualizing the terrorist risk in President Bush's war on terror and Peter Jackson's The Two Towers, Anita Lam; Hearing and belonging: on sounds, faith, and laws, Massimo Leone; Terror Australis, Maria Giannocopoulos; 'The unbearable whiteness of Beckham': semiotics and political recoding of the contemporary celebrity, David Tan; Warhol: images of infamy and underpinning power, Oliver Watts; Index.