Transforming Legal Communication

Ruth Breeze is Full Professor and Scientific Director of the Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Navarra, Spain. She has published widely on discourse analysis and professional communication, with a particular focus on language in the law and in the media. Her work combines qualitative approaches to language analysis with computational linguistics.Magdalena Szczyrbak is Associate Professor at the Institute of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University (Poland) and at the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Pardubice (Czechia). Her research interests include discourse analysis and pragmatics, with a special focus on courtroom interaction.

• 1. Communicating the law: Messages, media, mediation Part 1: Communicating the work of legal institutions 2. Mediating a legal institution: Level of explanatory ambition as a measure of knowledge complexity 3. Extended reality and extended modality to communicate legal information to new audiences: Applications and perspectives 4. Drawing distinctions beyond the verbal: Intersemiotic translation, multimodality and multisensoriality in law 5. Communicating knowledge about the Constitution of the Italian Republic on https://www.senatoragazzi.it 6. Clarifying the rule of law crisis: Recontextualisation strategies in Polish legal blogs, journalism and civil discourse 7. Holding the state responsible: Discourse in human rights reports and (social) media 8. “I am proud to have served…”: Language choice and argumentation in political resignation letters Part 2: Involving the public 9. Stories that bridge the gap: Storytelling to mediate legal knowledge on hate crimes 10. Communicating law to lay audiences: A multimodal analysis of student-produced legal popularization videos 11. Between emotion and cognition: Legal knowledge mediation in judges’ encounters with sovereign citizens 12. Alternatively negotiating justice: Generic structure and frames in Nigerian arbitration courtroom interaction 13. “… how we will meet our climate commitments”: On strategies to increase public participation in legislation in Ireland 14. Evaluating the accessibility of digital portals designed to educate Pakistani women on domestic violence and harassment laws 15. Diversity, equity and inclusion and the law