Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List Of Figures -- List Of Figures -- Part I: The Foundations Of Legal Language -- 1. Legal Drafting -- 2. The Interpretation Of Laws -- 3. Language Rights -- 4. Language Planning And Legal Systems -- 5. Semantic Processing Of Legal Texts -- Part II: Forensic Linguistics And Court Setting -- 6. Implicit legal norms -- 7. Authorship attribution analysis -- 8. Topic management in police-suspect interviewing -- 9. Forensic voice comparison -- 10. Narrative practices and voice in court -- Part III: Legal language outside of court -- 11. Linguistic analysis in trade mark law: current approaches and new challenges -- 12. Defamation, language and linguistics -- 13. Future directions in law and popular culture: a British perspective -- Part IV: International legal settings -- 14. Multilingual interpretation of European Union law -- 15. Contemporary Chinese law: a linguistic perspective -- 16. Unity and varieties of Arabic as a legal language: practices of interpretation and translation -- 17. Law, language and communication in the Indian context -- 18. The many languages of Japanese legal language -- Biographical notes -- Index