1st Edition
A Forensic Linguistic Approach to Legal Disclosures ERISA Cash Balance Conversion Cases and the Contextual Dynamics of Deception
By James Stratman
Copyright 2016
202 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
216 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
216 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book is a scholarly work of forensic linguistics that demonstrates how the principles of Gricean pragmatics and their recent elaboration in Information Manipulation Theory (IMT) can be of use to courts faced with deciding cases of allegedly fraudulent disclosure documents. The usual goal of legal rules for disclosure documents is not merely to prevent lying but other forms of deception as... Read more
1. Introduction. 2. The Cash Balance Conversion Controversy: Dying But Not Dead 3. Strengths and Limitations of Information Manipulation Theory and Grice’s Maxims for Explicating Deceptive Communication in ERISA Disclosures 4. Amara v. CIGNA 5. Tomlinson v. El Paso Corporation 6. Comparing Experimental and Non-Experimental Analyses of Text Comprehensibility and Deceptiveness: Perspectives on Admissibility 7. Disclosure, Obfuscation, and Deception: Are IMT’s Gricean Maxims Helpful?
Biography
James Stratman is Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Denver, USA.
