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John A. Hawkins
The English Language on Trial: Witnessing Disputed Meanings in American Courts
The English Language on Trial: Witnessing Disputed Meanings in American Courts
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- More about The English Language on Trial: Witnessing Disputed Meanings in American Courts
Many lawsuits arise over disagreements about language and about the meanings of everyday words, phrases, and sentences. This book draws on over fifty cases involving disputed meanings in the American legal system where the author served as an expert witness or consultant, to explore the interaction between language and law. Stepping back from the legal specifics and their outcomes, it analyzes the disputes from the perspective of the language sciences, especially semantics and pragmatics, and language comprehension. It seeks to understand why, and in what areas of English grammar, lexis, and usage, they have arisen among speakers who do not normally miscommunicate and disagree like this. The cases involve contracts, patents, advertising, trademarks, libel, and defamation, and descriptive insights and methods from the language sciences are applied to each case to make explicit the meanings that speakers would normally assign to English.
- Publication date: 26 March 2026
- Page count: 286
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN-13: 9781009682787
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