A Forensic Linguistic Approach to Legal Disclosures: Erisa Cash Balance Conversion Cases and the Contextual Dynamics of Deception

ISBN-13: 9780367023492 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 202 str.

James Stratman

Opis

This book is a scholarly work of forensic linguistics that demonstrates how the principles of Gricean pragmatics and their recent elaboration in Information Manipulation Theory (IMT) can be of use to courts faced with deciding cases of allegedly fraudulent disclosure documents. Stratman seeks to enrich current explications of the rhetorical "workings" of deceptive disclosures within the broader Gricean tradition of pragmatics, and in so doing contributes to the larger dual mission of the field of forensic linguistics, which is both to understand and to improve courts’ impact on social justice.

Spis treści

1. Introduction. 2. The Cash Balance Conversion Controversy: Dying But Not Dead  3. Strengths and Limitations of Information Manipulation Theory and Grice’s Maxims for Explicating Deceptive Communication in ERISA Disclosures  4. Amara v. CIGNA  5. Tomlinson v. El Paso Corporation  6. Comparing Experimental and Non-Experimental Analyses of Text Comprehensibility and Deceptiveness: Perspectives on Admissibility  7. Disclosure, Obfuscation, and Deception: Are IMT’s Gricean Maxims Helpful? 

O autorze

James Stratman is Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Denver, USA.