Transparency, power, and control : perspectives on legal communication / edited by Vijay K. Bhatia ... [and others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Transparency, power, and control in legal communication / Vijay K. Bhatia ... [and others] -- Common words, uncommon meanings : statutory interpretation in China and Australia / Deborah Cao -- On legal conditionals / Celina Frade -- The directive and persuasive style of a legislative speech act and the transformations thereof / Irena Szczepankowska -- Zorkin volume Morschakova : legal dispute in rhetorical terms / Anita Soboleva -- A dialogical and polyphonic approach to contract theory / André Bélanger and Andy van Drom -- What EU legislative texts reveal about power, control and transparency / Colin Robertson -- Toward an objective means of measuring governmental legitimacy / Douglas Bellis -- Battle of the sexters : teens celling sex in a world wide web of conflicting laws, values and social norms / Michelle Wirth -- Visualizing the terrorist risk in President Bush's War on Terror and Peter Jackson's The two towers / Anita Lam -- Hearing and belonging : on sounds, faith, and laws / Leone Massimo -- Terror australis / Maria Giannacopoulos -- "The unbearable whiteness of Beckham" : semiotics and political recoding of the contemporary celebrity / David Tan -- Law and semiotics : Warhol and images of infamy / Oliver Watts.