Formal linguistics and law [electronic resource] / edited by Günther Grewendorf, Monika Rathert.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language and law : new applications of formal linguistics / Günther Grewendorf and Monika Rathert -- Law matters, syntax matters and semantics matters / Carl Vogel -- Improving the comprehensibility of German court decisions / Stella Neumann -- Understanding a Riester-pension : a reply to Becker and Klein (2008) / Monika Rathert -- Forensic phonetics and the influence of speaking style on global measures of fundamental frequency / Michael Jessen -- Phonetic cues to speaker age : a longitudinal study / Angelika Braun and Stefan Friebis -- Does speech reveal one's age? : on the use of gerontolinguistic topics for forensic authorship analysis / Jan Seifert -- Definition extraction from court decisions using computational linguistic technology / Stephan Walter -- Making sense of legal texts / Emile de Maat, Radboud Winkels, and Tom van Engers -- Interfacing between different legal systems using the examples of N-Lex and EUR-Lex / Doris Liebwald -- The LOIS project and beyond / Erich Schweighofer -- Multilingualism in the European Union : status quo and perspectives : the reference language model / Karin Luttermann -- Drafting and interpretation of EU law--paradoxes of legal multilingualism / Agnieszka Doczekalska -- Multilingual law drafting in Switzerland / Andreas Lötscher -- A modular approach to legal drafting and translation / Jacqueline Visconti.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.