Jurilinguistics: Ways Forward Beyond Law, Translation, and Discourse

Abstract

This is the guest editors' introductory paper to the special issue "Situating jurilinguistics across cultures using translation and discourse approaches." The introduction showcases the interdisciplinary vocation of jurilinguistics from its conception almost forty years ago. It is argued that jurilinguistics has achieved its current maturity by diversifying the disciplinary lenses of the originally contributing disciplines of legal translation and legal studies while keeping faithful to its original principles-facing practical problems with a rigorous outlook, venturing into any new domains that may prove enlightening, and combining professional and academic perspectives. The authors highlight how the series of conferences "Jurilinguistics: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Language and Law" have been instrumental in enhancing the scope of jurilinguistics. Finally, the articles gathered in this special issue are presented and their contributions in advancing the knowledge available for practitioners and scholars meeting at the interface between law and language are underscored.

Fighting the Fake: A Forensic Linguistic Analysis to Fake News Detection

“…In a broad sense, forensic linguistics Fighting the Fake: A Forensic Linguistic Analysis to Fake News… subsumes three sub-areas: (a) the Written Language of the Law, (b) Spoken Interaction in Legal Contexts, and (c) Language as Evidence; the narrow definition of forensic linguistics, conversely, restricts the discipline to Language as Evidence. Therefore, Forensic Linguistics has been used over the last decades in several different contexts, from the provision of linguistic evidence in cases of plagiarism [65,72], authorship attribution [35], and disputed meanings [10], to the analysis of contracts and statutes [51,64], courtroom discourse [21] and police interaction [55], among others.…”