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Introduction / Vijay K. Bhatia and Girolamo Tessuto -- Environmental justice or 'government overreach' : the rhetorical landscape of the Gibson guitar factory raids / Roy Carpetner -- Trial by (social) media : Anglo-Saxon and Italian practises in the digital age -- Douglas Ponton and Marco Canepa -- Legally dead, illegally frozen? : The legal aspects of cryonics as discursively constructed online by providers and the media / Kim Grego -- The fuzzy line between media and judicial discourse : insights from the Pinto-López Madrid Case / Gianluca Pontrandolfo -- Ideological positioning in Amnesty International human rights web-based documents / Geraldo Delahunty -- Argumentation and video evidence in a legal context : an interdisciplinary case study from Brazilian military justice / Andre Larazo, Vicente Riccio and Amitza Torres Vieira -- The discursive construction of Hong Kong's Civic Square in the media : contesting social and legal perspectives / Aditi Bhatia -- Finding a way forward : a discourse analysis of the online popularisation of restorative justice in the United Kingdom / Antonella Napolitano -- Helping Aussie women online : a discourse analysis of the Australian e-safety commissioner website / Carmina Meola -- Discursive illusions and manipulations in legal blogs on medically assisted procreation : Parrillo v. Italy Case / Jekatarina Nikitina -- Jag 2.0 : legal advice and dissemination in online military lawyer forums / -- Roxanne Barbara Doerr -- The web-mediated construction of interdiscursive truth(s) about the MMR vaccine : a defamation case / Anna Franca Plastina and Rosita Belinda Magile -- The toxic proliferation of lies and fake news in the world of social media : is it time for the law to "unfriend" Facebook? / Janet Ainsworth -- 'Fake news' as interdiscursive illusion: a challenge to law, social media, and free speech / Vijay K Bhatia -- Information and communication technology in alternative dispute resolution : is it facilitative or disruptive? / Rajesh Sharma.

This volume provides descriptive and interpretive insights into the 'living' usage of language and other semiotic modes in building and performing the law across academic, professional and institutional contexts, where issues arise from the meaning and function of legal texts, discourse and genre in constituting and enabling conventions, albeit dynamically, and account for the socially and (inter)culturally influenced forms of discursive actions and practices. The twenty contributions included here weave significant contexts and situations for legal discourse and practice into a tight thread, and justify selected topic areas through a variety of approaches, frameworks, methodologies, and procedures. As such, this publication is multidimensional and multiperspectival in its design and implementation of key issues confronting discursive actions and practices of the law, and provides an invaluable resource for academics in a wider range of disciplines, including linguistics, applied linguistics and communication studies. It will also be of interest to students of interdisciplinary discourse analysis.

Over recent decades, legal language and its representation of social action, social actors and social practices have provided systematic insights into the meaning and function of text, discourse or talk realised in academic, professional and institutional sites of communication, and generated a variety of data for analysis, method and theory. Constructing Legal Discourses and Social Practices, the first issue of the Legal Discourse and Communication international series, looks descriptively and interpretatively at the realised forms of legal discourse and how these are framed and organised by social practices within distinctive sites of legal communication. The four main parts of the book provide a broad coverage of key issues and perspectives arising from a variety of genres (spoken, as well as written) employed in institutional, professional and organisational communication of the law, and bring into focus recent research where language and law play out in the real world. This invaluable book is multi-dimensional and multi-perspectival in its design and implementation, and will be an essential reference for those researching and working in the areas of applied linguistics and for postgraduate students