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

Name: Transparency, Power, and Control: Perspectives on Legal Communication (Law, Language and Communication)
Author: Hafner, Christoph A.
ISBN: 9781409432845

Hafner, Christoph A.

Language: English

Published by Routledge, 2012

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Brings together academics and practitioners from a range of disciplines from more than twenty countries to reflect on the growing importance of transparency, power and control in our international community and how these concerns and ideas have been examined, used and interpreted in a range of national and international contexts. Editor(s): Miller, Lindsay; Bhatia, Professor Vijay K. Series Editor(s): Bhatia, Professor Vijay K. Num Pages: 278 pages, Includes 7 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: LAQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 652. . 2012. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Transparency, Power, and Control: Perspectives on Legal Communication (Law, Language and Communication)
Author: Hafner, Christoph A.
Publisher: Routledge
Publication year: 2012
Condition: New
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
ISBN 10: 140943284X
ISBN 13: 9781409432845

About the Author

Vijay Bhatia is a Visiting Professor in the Department of English. Before joining the City University of Hong Kong in 1993, he worked at the National University of Singapore (1983-1993) . He is also the founding President of the Association of LSP and Professional Communication for the Asia-Pacific Region. Some of his recent research projects include Analyzing Genre-bending in Corporate Disclosure Documents, and International Arbitration Practice: A Discourse Analytical Study, in which he leads research teams from more than 20 countries. His research interests include genre analysis of academic and professional discourses, including, legal, business, newspaper, advertising genres, ESP and Professional Communication. He has given more than 150 presentations in international conferences, including about 50 plenary and keynote papers in the last ten years. Christoph A. Hafner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, City University of Hong Kong. In addition to his background in applied linguistics, he is also trained as a lawyer and has taught post-graduate courses in legal writing and drafting and English for Law to both novice lawyers and students of language studies in Hong Kong. He was principal investigator on a Teaching Development Grant project to design, implement and evaluate a genre-based, online resource for the development of professional legal communication skills. He has been involved in a range of other funded projects in legal discourse and legal education. Christoph Hafner has published in the fields of legal language, educational technology, and language education. Dr Lindsay Miller is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at City University of Hong Kong. He has been responsible for designing, developing and teaching a wide variety of courses. In the area of ESP service teaching he has taught mainly 'English for Engineering', 'English for Building and Architecture', and 'English for Biology and Chemistry'. In the Department's undergraduate courses he teaches mostly listening and speaking proficiency skills and conceptual courses such as those dealing with corporate training. The postgraduate courses he teaches are mainly concerned with such topics as learner autonomy and critical pedagogy. Dr Miller's main areas of research have focused on self-access language learning , and academic listening, and he has co-authored two books in these areas for Cambridge University Press - Establishing Self-Access: from Theory to Practice (1999) and Second Language Listening: Theory and Practice (2005). Anne Wagner, is an Associate Professor, Université du Littoral CÃ´te d'Opale, France and Research Professor, China University of Political Science and Law (Beijing, China). Since 2005 she has been President of the International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law (IRSL). She is the founder of the website: http://www.semioticsoflaw.com; a founding Member of International Law and Language Association and a Permanent Member of the Scientific Committee of the Instituto Subalpino per l'analisi e l'insegnamento del diritto della attivitÃ transanzionali - ISAIDAT. She has published extensively on issues relating to law and language.

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