Focus and Scope

This journal focuses on article themes related, but not limited, to: 

1. Language and Discourse in Legal Contexts

• Legal discourse analysis
• Courtroom interaction and judicial discourse
• Legislative and statutory language
• Institutional and organizational legal discourse
• Public and political legal discourse

2. Forensic Linguistics and Language Evidence

• Authorship analysis and speaker identification
• Language evidence in legal investigations
• Linguistic profiling and forensic text analysis
• Language, law enforcement, and justice

3. Pragmatics, Semantics, and Legal Interpretation

• Legal pragmatics and speech acts
• Meaning, ambiguity, and interpretation in law
• Argumentation and reasoning in legal texts
• Discourse and ideology in legal decision-making

4. Language, Law, and Society

• Language, power, and inequality in legal contexts
• Sociolinguistic dimensions of legal interaction
• Multilingualism and access to justice
• Language rights and legal policy

5. Legal Translation and Interpreting

• Legal translation as cross-lingual legal communication
• Court and institutional interpreting
• Discourse and pragmatics in legal translation
• Comparative and cross-jurisdictional legal language