Legal Discourse in Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts: Arbitration Texts in Europe: 6 (Linguistic Insights) - Tapa blanda

This volume presents the results of an international research project focussing on the lexico-grammatical, generic and textual analysis of legal discourse in multilingual and multicultural contexts. The particular focus of the investigation is the arbitration discourse in use in several European countries. This volume deals with the international arbitration discourse of legal documents in use in the Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Scotland and Sweden. For each of the countries involved, a comparison has been carried out between the local arbitration law and the UNCITRAL Model Law approved by the United Nations in 1985. The English language text of this Model Law has then been compared with the local language text of the arbitration law of each country and any discrepancies have been investigated in order to identify possible differences in the legal cultures underlying the two texts.

The Editors: Vijay Bhatia is Professor in the Department of English at the City University of Hong Kong, where he is primarily responsible for designing and directing the M.A. Programs in the Teaching of English for Specific Purposes. Christopher N. Candlin is Senior Research Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney. He is President of the International Association of Applied Linguistics and he holds Honorary Professorships at the Universities of Lancaster, Nottingham and Cardiff (UK). He is a consultant in online language learning for the UK Open University. Maurizio Gotti is Professor of English and Director of the Language Centre at the University of Bergamo. He is currently President of CERCLES (the European Confederation of University Language Centres) and Director of CERLIS, the research centre on specialised languages based at the University of Bergamo.