Language for Legislation and Legislation through Language (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Drinóczi, Tímea; Xanthaki, Helen; A. Pennisi, Giulia

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This collection teaches us how language and legislation interact to produce effective laws. It brings linguistics, lawyers, theory, and practices together to show how linguistic tools, concepts, and methodologies can be applied to improve the law's clarity, transparency, and efficiency, thus widening its social reach.

Drawing on case studies across Europe, chapters critically reflect on the dynamics of legislative drafting and the dissemination of legislation and the ways in which drafted legislation both creates laws and serves to communicate their meaning. This volume features perspectives from national and transnational examples to demonstrate the impact of varied stakeholders-legislative bodies, law interpreters, and law enforcers-on the implementation of legislation, particularly when legislative texts are translated and interpreted across different settings. Through the lens of discourse analysis, legislative texts are analyzed in lexico-grammatical and textual terms, highlighting the disparity between what is conceived and what might be expressed clearly in words and how this knowledge can inform better drafting practices. This collection charts a way forward for linguistics as a discipline to contribute to a better understanding of the nuances around effective legislative expression.

This book will appeal to scholars and stakeholders working at the intersection of language and the law, in such fields as applied linguistics, forensic linguistics, regulation, legislation, and legislative drafting.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040410929
• Artikelnr.: 75320069

Autorenporträt

Tímea Drinóczi is Professor of Law, Senior Researcher, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania and a Research Affiliate at the Law School, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and in the CEU Democracy Institute, Budapest, Hungary. Giulia A. Pennisi is Professor of English Language and Translation at the Department of Political Science and International Relations (DEMS), University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy, and Associate Research Fellow at Sir William Dale Centre for Legislative Studies, London, UK. Helen Xanthaki is a Professor at University College London, Dean of PGLaws at the University of London Worldwide, and Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Sir William Dale Centre for Legislative Studies, London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to Language for legislation and legislation through language by Tímea Drinóczi
Giulia A. Pennisi
and Helen Xanthaki
Part One - Themes: Social practice
translation and interpretation
and legal certainty
1. Law
Language & Culture in the EU: A Case of Harmonisation
Reflection of Diversity or a Case for Judicial Activism?
Ivan Sammut
2. Gender Inclusiveness: does language as a social practice meet law-making in Brazil? Ana Larissa Adorno Marciotto Oliveira and Lucas Willian Oliveira Marciano
3. Law
Language and Legal Certainty: Transformation and Challenges of the Georgian Legal Language
Dimitry Gegenava
4. EU "Better Regulation": the role of European Committee of the Regions by Gaetano Armao
5. How Legal Translation Matters In Türkiye? Examination Of International Agreements Through The Lens Of Private International Law
Aysun Bolaca and Belk¿s Vural Çelenk
6. Institutional translation: Balancing multilingual legal discourse between EU and Switzerland
Annarita Felici
7. Simplification of Legal Language and Turkishization of the Turkish Constitutions of 1924
1961
and 1982
Omer Faruk Genckaya and Seref Iba
8. The Quest for Legislative Reform in Kosovo: Bridging Regulatory Governance with Legal Drafting and Legislative Language Discourses
Novitet Nezaj
Part Two - Tools: terminology
language processing
technology
9. Terminology management and better understanding of legislative intent for citizens in the age of technological disruption
Fóris Ágota
10. Making drafting clearer and more accessible in a multilingual context: The role of contrastive terminology and comparative law
Barnabás Novák and Tímea Drinóczi
11. Analyzing the language of legislation using natural language processing
Xiao Lu
Moritz Osnabrugge and Gerrit Quaremba
12. An empirical approach of multimodality and legal language reform in Brazil
Thiago B.V. Hermont
Fabiana Soares and Mônica Sette Lopes
Part Three - Interconnection in praxis: language for effectiveness and legal certainty for language
13. Translation as a lens through which to view legislation's effectiveness
John O'Shea and Daniel Webber
14. Tense Aspects of Legislative Drafting
Martin David Kelly
15. Terminological controversies over a legal hendiadys: the 'true and fair' case
Annalisa Zanola
16. Drafting EU soft law instruments as persuasive governance tools
Corina Andone and Florin Coman Kund
17. A linguistic approach to drafting legislative provisions
Giulia A. Pennisi
18. Let linguists teach the drafters: easification (layering the structure) of Regulation (EU) 2023/955 establishing a Social Climate Fund
Helen Xanthaki with Nicole Sardiello-Zamboni
Aarohi Vikas Pillai
Denise Yasmine H. Eixas and Kimberley Shepherd

Rezensionen

"In a rapidly evolving legal landscape, clarity, accessibility, and precision in legislative drafting are more crucial than ever. This remarkable volume, Language for Legislation and Legislation through Language, is a groundbreaking contribution to the interdisciplinary study of legislation and language, bringing together leading scholars from across the globe to explore the intersections of law, linguistics, and legislative effectiveness...This volume, as an essential resource for legislators, academics, and practitioners alike, is a milestone in the pursuit of better legislation, and it will inspire a new era of legislative excellence."

- Mauro Zamboni, Professor in jurisprudence at the Department of Law, Stockholm University