Acknowledgements ; Contributors ; Preface ; Part I ; Legal Language and Its History ; 1. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from A History of the Languages of Law (in The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law) ; 2. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from Legal Language ; 3. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from Parchment, Paper, Pixels ; 4. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from Some Myths about Legal Language ; 5. Frederick Schauer, On the Relationship Between Legal and Ordinary Language ; 6. Ronald R. Butters, Legal Language and its History: Quo Imus? Qua Imus? ; 7. Frank S. Ravitch, Philosophical Hermeneutics in the Age of Pixels: Hans-Georg Gadamer, Peter Tiersma, and Dasein in the Age of the Internet ; 8. Edward Finegan, The Language of Lawyers and the Language of Plumbers ; 9. Dieter Stein, Words, Words, Words - But What's in a Text? ; Part II ; The Language of Contracts and Wills ; 10. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from Parchment, Paper, Pixels ; 11. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from Reassessing Unilateral Contracts ; 12. Brian H. Bix, Philosophy of Language, Unilateral Contracts, and the Law ; 13. Sidney W. DeLong, How to do Legal Things with Words: The Contracts Scholarship of Peter Tiersma ; 14. Peter Goodrich, Tiersma Contra Mundum In Defence Of Promises ; 15. Jeffrey M. Lipshaw, Formalism, Speech Acts, and The Realities Of Contract Formation ; Part III ; Speech and Action ; The Meanings of Silence in Law ; 16. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpts from The Language of Silence ; 17. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt from Nonverbal Communication and the Freedom of Speech ; 18. Elizabeth Mertz, Law's Metalinguistics: Silence, Speech, and Action ; 19. Malcolm Coulthard, The Sounds of Silence ; 20. Meizhen Liao, Speech or Silence: Within and Beyond Language and Law ; Consenting ; 21. Peter M. Tiersma, Excerpt fromThe Language of Consent in Rape Law (In Janet Cotterill (ed.), The Language of Sexual Crime (pp. 91-97) ; 22. Susan Ehrlich, 'Inferring' Consent in the Context of Rape and Sexual Assault ; 23. Tim Grant & Kerrie Spaul, Felicitous Consent ; 24. Gregory M. Matoesian, Reflections on Peter Tiersma's

Selling point: Includes a selection of twelve of Peter Tiersma's most influential publications Selling point: Offers substantive conversation about the ramifications of Tiersma's work from leading scholars in the field Selling point: Considers five thematic areas of Tiersma's work that are critical to both law and linguistics

Lawrence Solan is Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School. Janet Ainsworth is Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law. Roger W. Shuy is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University.

Selling point: Includes a selection of twelve of Peter Tiersma's most influential publications Selling point: Offers substantive conversation about the ramifications of Tiersma's work from leading scholars in the field Selling point: Considers five thematic areas of Tiersma's work that are critical to both law and linguistics