1 Transparency, Power and Control in Legal Communication&Vijay K.Bhatia, Christoph A.Hafner Lindsay Miller and Anne Wagner 1
PART Ⅰ: THEORIZING TRANSPARENCY, POWER AND CONTROL IN LEGAL COMMUNICATION 13
2 Linguistic Uncertainty and Legal Transparency: Statuto Interpretation in China and Australia&Deborah Cao 13
3 The Power of Legal Conditionals in International Contracts&Celina Frade 31
4 The Directive and Persuasive Style of a Legislative Speech Act and the Transformations Thereof （Illustrated with the Polish Legal Discourse）&Irena Szczepankowska 51
5 Zorkin v. Morschakova: Legal Dispute in Rhetorical Terms&Anita Soboleva 67
6 A Dialogical and Polyphonic Approach to Contract Theory&Andre Belanger and Andy van Drom 85
7 What EU Legislative Texts Reveal about Power, Control and Transparency&Colin Robertson 109
8 Toward an Objective Means of Measuring Governmental Legitimacy&M.Douglass Bellis 125
PART Ⅱ: VISUALIZING AND CONTEXTUALIZING TRANSPARENCY, POWER AND CONTROL 147
9 Battle of the Sexters: Teens Celling Sex in a World Wide Web of Conflicting Laws, Values and Social Norms&Michelle L.Wirth 147
10 Visualizing the Terrorist Risk in President Bush’s War on Terror and Peter Jackson’s The Two Towers&Anita Lam 165
11 Hearing and Belonging: On Sounds, Faiths and Laws&Massimo Leone 183
12 Terror Australis&Maria Giannacopoulos 199
13 ‘The Unbearable Whiteness of Beckham’: Semiotics and Political Recoding of the Contemporary Celebrity&David Tan 217
14 Warhol: Images of Infamy and Underpinning Power&Oliver Watts 243
Index 261