The Language of Canon Law.
In this book, Judith Hahn explores the legal order of the Roman Catholic Church to better understand how the Roman Catholic Church communicates as a legal institution. She argues that the language of canon law reveals the political ideology of the church hierarchy, and she takes up the tools of lang...
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover -- Series -- The Language of Canon Law -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 The Language of the Church and of Its Law -- The Gospel, Message, and Mission -- Law in Service of the Gospel Message -- 1.2 Canon Law on Language -- In Service of the Gospel Mission -- Ecclesiastical Language Crimes -- Solicitation and Threat -- Lying under Oath -- The Sacramental Seal -- Defaming Speech -- Language in Penal Law -- 1.3 Part of the Law and Language Debate -- Linguistics and Legal Studies -- Learning from Legal Practice. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Theology and Canon Law Studies -- Scope of My Study -- 2. The Function of Language in Law -- 2.1 Purposes of the Law -- Creating Social Cohesion -- Influencing Behavior -- Exchanging Information -- Concealed Purposes -- 2.2 Law as Communication -- Sending Legal Messages -- Receiving Legal Meaning -- Making Legal Meaning -- Communal Meaning -- The Media of the Law -- The Silence of the Law -- 2.3 The Sacramentality of the Law -- The Language of Magic -- Ritual Speech -- Law as a Matter of Belief -- Legal Speech Acts -- Classes of Illocutions -- Legal Illocutions -- Status Function Declarations. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Deontic Powers -- Sacramental Speech -- Ex Opere Operato -- True Communication -- 3. Idiosyncrasies of Legal Language -- 3.1 The Grammar of the Law -- Gender Issues -- Passive Constructions -- Challenging Syntax -- Expressing Commands -- 3.2 The Terminology of the Law -- Common Terms as Legal Terms -- "Lending" and "Loaning" -- "Possession" and "Property" -- Changing Meaning -- Technical Terminology -- 3.3 Legal Terms, Foreign Words -- Borrowed Terms -- Canon Law Latin -- Language Training -- Canon Law Jargon -- Neologisms -- 3.4 Indeterminate Terms -- "Grave Necessity" -- "Just Cause" | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 4. Comprehension Difficulties -- 4.1 Ambiguity of the Law -- Lexical Ambiguity -- "Fideles" as Legal Subjects -- Syntactic Ambiguity -- 4.2 Transfer Problems -- "Annulment" Terminology -- Substance and Accidents -- A Grin without a Cat -- 4.3 Blending Literary Genres -- Theological Trimmings -- A Custom Commercial -- 5. Challenging Legal Incomprehension -- 5.1 Exclusivism and Elitism -- Language Weapons -- Linguistic Distinction -- Preventing Legal Heresy -- 5.2 Endorsing Plain Language -- Avoiding Useless Precision -- Simple Structure and Style -- Modernizing Legal Speech -- 5.3 Plain Canon Law? | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Simplifying Constructions -- Replacing Outdated Terms -- Challenging Law Latin -- Intelligibility over Distinction -- Comprehension over Tradition -- Supporting Equal Comprehension -- 6. A Global Law and Its Language -- 6.1 Linguistic Relativity -- Perceiving Reality via Language -- Relativity of Legal Concepts -- Cultural Conflicts in Global Law -- 6.2 Strong and Weak Language Theories -- Language and Cultural Borders -- Reconstructing Meaning -- 6.3 Legislation for Multi-Language Groups -- Legal and Linguistic Colonialism -- Structures of Dominance -- Multi-Language Approaches. | |
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