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.