Stratman, James F.,

A forensic linguistic approach to legal disclosures : ERISA cash balance conversion cases and the contextual dynamics of deception / James F. Stratman. - viii, 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Routledge studies in linguistics .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The cash balance conversion controversy : dying but not dead -- Strengths and limitations of information manipulation theory and Grice's maxims for explicating deceptive communication in ERISA disclosures -- Amara v. CIGNA -- Tomlinson v. El Paso Corporation -- Comparing experimental and nonexperimental analyses of text comprehensibility and deceptiveness : perspectives on admissibility -- Disclosure, obfuscation, and deception : are IMT's Gricean maxims helpful?.

9781138920057 (cloth : alk. paper)

2015021675


United States. Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.


Pension trusts--Law and legislation--United States.
Disclosure of information--Law and legislation--United States.
Pension trusts--Law and legislation--Language.--United States
Forensic linguistics--United States.
Discourse analysis--United States.

KF3512 / STR 2016

345.73/0263