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Constructing vulnerability: the experience of children and other groups within legal discourse / Michelle Aldridge, June Luchjenbroers -- Learning and unlearning being guilty: on the contingent ascription of a deficit category / Thomas Scheffer -- Categorisations of child 'in need' and child 'in need of protection' and implications for the formulation of 'deficit' parenting / Christopher Hall, Stef Slembrouck -- 'She is not coping': risk assessment and claims of deficit in social work / Arthur S. Firkins, Christopher N. Candlin -- Narrative, identity and care: joint problematisation in a study of people living with dementia / Jonathan Crichton, Tina Koch -- 'We're just going to be talking about you...': identifying deficits and achieving quality in nurse-patient discourse / Sally Candlin -- 'You don't want to look like that for the rest of your life': contested discourses of loss in a normative societal context / Lesley Stirling, Lenore Manderson, Jennifer MacFarlane -- Identity work in consultancy projects: ambiguity and distribution of credit and blame / Mats Alvesson, Stefan Sveningsson -- On the discursive construction of knowledge deficits in the 'alter' / Peter Kastberg, Marianne Grove Ditlevsen -- The discursive construction of language disorders / Dana Kovarsky, Irene Walsh -- Public and private identity: the co-construction of aphasia through discourse / Elizabeth Armstrong, Alison Ferguson, Lynne Mortensen -- Epistemic injustice and the power to define: interviewing Cameroonian primary school teachers about language education / Edith Esch -- Absence as deficit in assessing intercultural capability / Angela Scarino -- Discourses of deficit and deficits of discourse: computers, disability and mediated action / Rodney Jones -- Young peoples' binge drinking constituted as a deficit of individual self-control in UK government alcohol policy / Chris Hackley ... [et al.] -- Measuring deficit / Tim McNamara -- A neo-colonial farce? Discourses of deficit in Australian Aboriginal land claim and Native title cases / Michael Walsh

In this paper, the national Indian and Chinese statutes on arbitration are compared with the UNCITRAL Model Law. After a presentation of the GILD-MMC project, focus is especially on textual aspects indicating attitudes towards the relation between the administrative powers and the parties in commercial arbitration. Thus, looking at the features all-inclusiveness, information load, information spread, legislative style and transparency signifi cant differences are found and related to the different com municative purposes (overall model vs. specifi c national rules), the different legal traditions (common law vs. civil law) and the different political systems (westernised market economy vs. socialist market economy).

The empirical and descriptive strengths of sociolinguistics, developed over more than 40 years of research, have not been matched by an active engagement with theory. Yet, over this time, social theorising has taken important new turns, linked in many ways to linguistic and discursive concerns. Sociolinguistics and Social Theory is the first book to explore the interface between sociolinguistic analysis and modern social theory. The book sets out to reunite sociolinguistics with the concepts and perspectives of several of the most influential modern theorists of society and social action, incl

Chapters include: 'Concepts, Contexts and Procedures in Arbitration Discourse', 'Confidentiality in Arbitrations' 'Vagueness and Indeterminacy in Law', 'Rhetorical Strategies in Arbitration Law', 'Arbitration in Sport', 'Translation in International Arbitration' and 'Translating Terminology in Arbitration Discourse'

We live in world increasingly shaped by risk and the communication of risk has become a crucial part of professional work. Communicating Risk is the first book to bring together leading researchers and practitioners to explore key issues of risk communication across diverse professional domains

The formulation of legal concepts in arbitration normative texts in a multilingual, multicultural context / Maurizio Gotti -- International commercial arbitration rules as translated : rewritten texts : an intercultural perspective / Giuliana Garzone -- The linguistic formulation of power : modality and power relations in two sets of sports-related arbitration rules / Paola Evangelisti Allori -- Italian-English correspondences in the juridical discourse of sports arbitration : an electronic glossary / Michela Menghini -- Negotiated meaning and international commercial law / Tarja Salmi-Tolonen -- "Uberrima fidei" : language choice and cultural undertones in the insurance of international trade / Martin Solly -- Linguistic "checks and balances" in the draft EU constitution / Gigliola Sacerdoti Mariani -- "The times they're a-changing" : the abolition of Feudal Tenure (Scotland) Act 2000 and linguistic strategies of popularization / Marina Dossena -- EU discourse on enlargement : the negotiation of meaning / Giuditta Caliendo, Marco Venuti