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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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
2023
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Series/Journal: | Oxford Studies in Language and Law Ser.
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Canon law
/ Law
/ Latin
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| Further subjects: | B
Electronic books
B Canon law-Language B Law-Language |
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| Summary: | 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 language and law scholarship to examine and challenge that language. Hahn examines the grammar and terminology of canon law, and how canon law language makes use of linguistic tricks and techniques to create its typical sound and discusses the comprehension difficulties that arise out of ambiguities in the law, out of transfer problems between legal and common language, and out of canon law's confusing mix of legal, doctrinal, and moral norms. 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 -- 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 -- 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" -- 4. Comprehension Difficulties -- 4.1 Ambiguity of the Law -- Lexical Ambiguity. |
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| ISBN: | 0197674267 |