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Lecturer(s)
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Szczyrbak Magdalena Adriana, Dr. hab.
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Course content
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unspecified
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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- Independent critical reading
- 20 hours per semester
- Contact teaching
- 26 hours per semester
- Home preparation for classes
- 22 hours per semester
- Preparation for an exam
- 22 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The course introduces students to various facets of language use in diverse legal and law-related contexts. It includes such topics as e.g.: features of legal language; language and power in legal contexts; policespeak and police interviews; courtroom interaction; hate speech; authorship profiling; forensic text types; lying, deception and fraud; online fraud; plagiarism; visualisation of law; law and new media. During the course students will be familiarized with a range of legal and law-related genres and communicative settings, as well as made aware of the analytical tools which can be usefully applied to explain meaning-making processes involving legal and lay participants. Students will have an opportunity to apply theoretical knowledge in the analysis of real-life examples. 1. Introduction: signposting the 'language and law' field 2. Legal language and legal genres 3. Legal terminology: focus on criminal law 4. Police interviews 5. Courtroom interaction 6. Hate speech 7. Lying, deception and fraud 8. Threatening language 9. Authorship analysis 10. Plagiarism 11. Legal design and intersemiotic legal translation 12. Multimodal conduct in legal settings
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
Class attendance and active class participation (in person and online) Completion of home assignments Oral assessment
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Recommended literature
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