Arbitration Discourse in Asia: (208 Linguistic Insights)

Arbitration is the most widely used alternative method to resolve commercial disputes between parties. Since arbitration in international contexts is equally applicable to legal traditions across the world, there has been incessant effort on the part of all jurisdictions to harmonize principles and practices to establish a unified system of arbitration. As differences are difficult to reconcile, there has been quite a bit of interest and effort invested in the study of some of the key issues and challenges in the field. This volume reports on one such initiative undertaken by an interdisciplinary project, whose main objective is to investigate the norms and arbitral practices in some important Asian countries from the point of view of discursive practices prevalent in these jurisdictions. The project focuses on the documents used in arbitration in the main Asian countries and compares them with those employed in other continents. The investigated texts include not only norms and awards, but also interviews with professionals in the field so as to gain direct insights into the linguistic and textual choices employed in the drafting of these documents.

Table of Contents:
Contents: Maurizio Gotti: A Linguistic Insight into China’s Arbitration Law – Girolamo Tessuto: Legislating on Arbitration in Singapore: Linguistic Insights – Patrizia Anesa/Francesca Locatelli: Arbitration in Japan: Insights into the Arbitration Law and the JCAA Rules – Maurizio Gotti/Piera Pellegrinelli/Elena Signorini: Norms Concerning the Appointment and Challenge of Arbitrators in the Legislation of the People’s Republic of China – Tarja Salmi-Tolonen: How Do East and West Meet in Arbitration Discourse? – Joanna Jemielniak: Exploring Med-Arb and Arb-Med Discourse in China: Challenges and Prospects – Ulisse Belotti/Mariacarla Giorgetti: Critical Aspects of Arbitration Practices: Narratives from Singapore – Giuliana Garzone: Arbitration Awards in the East and the West: A Comparative Analysis with a Focus on Domain Name Dispute Resolution – Michele Sala: Deonticity and Authoritativeness in Hong Kong International Arbitration Awards – Stefania M. Maci: «It is amply clear that there is no convincing evidence to infer that»: Evidentiality in Indian Arbitral Awards – Patrizia Anesa: Discursive Peculiarities of Indian Arbitral Awards.

About the Author :
Vijay K. Bhatia retired as Professor from the Department of English, City University of Hong Kong. His research interests mainly include Critical Genre Analysis, academic and professional discourses, ESP and Professional Communication. Two of his books, Analysing Genre: Language Use in Professional Settings and Worlds of Written Discourse: A Genre-based View, are widely used in genre theory and practice. Maurizio Gotti is Professor of English Language and Translation, Head of the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Communication, and Director of the Research Centre for LSP Research (CERLIS) at the University of Bergamo. His main research areas are the features and origins of specialized discourse.