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1st Edition

Transforming Legal Communication Cognitive and Multimodal Approaches

Edited By Ruth Breeze, Magdalena Szczyrbak Copyright 2027

314 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

Description

This book examines creative new ways in which legal and administrative information are communicated to diverse audiences. Using a range of theoretical frameworks, it explores these transformations within broader societal issues such as legal activism, access to justice, and citizen participation. Increasingly, there has been widespread recognition that non-specialists need to be able to... Read more

Table of Contents

1. Communicating the law: Messages, media, mediation
Ruth Breeze and Magdalena Szczyrbak

Part 1: Communicating the work of legal institutions

2. Mediating a legal institution: Level of explanatory ambition as a measure of knowledge complexity
Jan Engberg

3. Extended reality and extended modality to communicate legal information to new audiences: Applications and perspectives
Patrizia Anesa

4. Drawing distinctions beyond the verbal: Intersemiotic translation, multimodality and multisensoriality in law
Olimpia Giuliana Loddo

5. Communicating knowledge about the Constitution of the Italian Republic on https://www.senatoragazzi.it
Silvia Cacchiani

6. Clarifying the rule of law crisis: Recontextualisation strategies in Polish legal blogs, journalism and civil discourse
Stanisław Goźdź-Roszkowski

7. Holding the state responsible: Discourse in human rights reports and (social) media
Barbara de Cock and Stéphanie Pécher

8. “I am proud to have served…”: Language choice and argumentation in political resignation letters
Martin Solly

Part 2: Involving the public

9. Stories that bridge the gap: Storytelling to mediate legal knowledge on hate crimes
Jūratė Ruzaitė

10. Communicating law to lay audiences: A multimodal analysis of student-produced legal popularization videos
Sichen Xia

11. Between emotion and cognition: Legal knowledge mediation in judges’ encounters with sovereign citizens
Magdalena Szczyrbak

12. Alternatively negotiating justice: Generic structure and frames in Nigerian arbitration courtroom interaction
Florence Oluwaseyi Daniel

13. “… how we will meet our climate commitments”: On strategies to increase public participation in legislation in Ireland
Davide Mazzi

14. Evaluating the accessibility of digital portals designed to educate Pakistani women on domestic violence and harassment laws
Saqlain Hassan and Sumbal Bibi

15. Diversity, equity and inclusion and the law
Judith Turnbull

Editor(s)

Biography

Ruth Breeze is Full Professor and Scientific Director of the Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Navarra, Spain. She has published widely on discourse analysis and professional communication, with a particular focus on language in the law and in the media. Her work combines qualitative approaches to language analysis with computational linguistics.

Magdalena Szczyrbak is Associate Professor at the Institute of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University (Poland) and at the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Pardubice (Czechia). Her research interests include discourse analysis and pragmatics, with a special focus on courtroom interaction.

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