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Human Rights Discourse: Linguistics, Genre and Translation at the European Court of Human Rights book cover

1st Edition

Human Rights Discourse Linguistics, Genre and Translation at the European Court of Human Rights

By Jekaterina Nikitina Copyright 2025
316 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

316 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

316 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book explores the concept of human rights as constructed in language, shedding light on discursive and professional practices at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), as differentiated from other judicial institutions offering human rights defence mechanisms. It unveils the system of genres at the ECtHR adopting a holistic outlook, which caters for an interdisciplinary readership... Read more

Preface;  Part I: The discourse of human rights across institutions;  1. The discourse of human rights across languages, perspectives and institutions;  2. Constructing human rights discourse: insights from legal terminology and phraseology;  3. The European Court of Human Rights: context, genres and languages;  Part II: The European Court of Human Rights: inception of cases and the voices of human rights;  4. Application: the right to individual petition and plain language;  5. Case communication: negotiating supranational terminology through institutional translation;  6. Written observations: the duelling construction of reality;  Part III: The language of judges at the ECtHR;  7. Judgment: combining genre, patterning and legal reasoning perspectives;  8. Separate opinions: legal, linguistic and pragmatic insights;  Part IV: The life of cases beyond and after the ECtHR;  9: Beyond case-law: disseminating convention-related knowledge

Biography

Jekaterina Nikitina is Associate Professor of English Language and Translation at the University of Milan, Italy.

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