Law and language : an introduction / Legal texts and canons of construction : a view from current pragmatic theory / Linguistic meaning and legal truth / Truth in law / Language, truth, and law / Claims of legal authorities and "expression of intention " : the limits of philosophy of language / Legal pluralism : a systems theory approach to language, translation, and communication / Frame semantics and the "internal point of view" / Hart as contextualist? : Theories of interpretation in language and the law / On goodness and genre : talking about virtue in law and literature / The Grin's cat : language, law, and literature / Reading and writing the law : Macaulay in India / "Where be his quiddities now"? : Law and language in Hamlet / Stories in law : providing space for "oppositionists"? / Literal interpretation and English precedent in Joe Ma's Lawyer, lawyer / Toward a cognitive science of legal interpretation / Do you kick a dog when it's down? : Considering the use of children's video-recorded testimonies in court / The power of naming : surnames, children, and spouses / The role of language in legal contexts : a forensic cross-linguistic viewpoint / Vagueness and power delegation in law : a rely to Sorensen / Plato's fertility clinic : status and identity rhetoric in parenthood disputes / Silence, speech, and the paradox of the right to remain silent in American police investigation / The consumption of legal language : consuming the law / (Language + Law)² = ? / MMORPGing, law, and lingo / Constructing commercial contracts : no need for violence / Why are non-US contracts written in US legalese? : Some preliminary thoughts and a research agenda / The role of parliamentary rhetoric in facilitating the racial effect of stop and search powers in Section 44 of the Terrorism Act of 2000 / Precedent at the Court of Justice of the European Union : the linguistic aspect / Law and language(s) at the heart of the European Project : educating different kinds of lawyers / Foreign law in translation : if truth be told ... / First-person perspectives in legal decisions / Deaf people a the Old Bailey from the 18th century onwards / Role of the root : proto-Indo-European domination of legal language / Necessary violence? : Inscribing the subject of law