Daniel GreenWirtschaftsuniversität Wien | WU
Daniel Green
Master of Laws
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Introduction
I'm a researcher and teamplayer dealing with language-related problems in the world of law and legislation.
Additional affiliations
June 2023 - June 2023
Landesgericht für Strafsachen Wien
Position
- Intern
July 2019 - July 2019
Public Prosecution Service Vienna
Position
- Intern
Description
- Participation in criminal trials, inspection of prosecution files and records, preparation of investigative measures
September 2017 - present
Education
September 2016 - August 2018
October 2015 - May 2016
March 2012 - May 2017
Publications
Publications (63)
Pragmatic aptitude in mediators
Daniel Green
Building on previous pioneering work in pragmatic aptitude testing (Sedaghatgoftar, Karimi, Babaii &
Reiterer 2019), this project aims to test pragmatic aptitude in mediators, defined as “a third-party neutral
[assisting] the parties to reach a 'consensual' agreement about the settlement of their disp...
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This article deals with the construction and performance of antisemitism in Nazi children’s books. It provides an explorative discourse analysis of Trust No Fox [1] and The Poisonous Mushroom [2] through the lens of Critical Applied Legal Linguistics (CrALL). It seeks to elucidate how ‘Jewishness’ is constructed in the two books, with a view to enh...
In 2021, a second updated edition of Eschig’s and Pircher-Eschig’s translation of the Austrian Civil Code (ABGB) [1] was released. This edition holds particular relevance due to its potential applicability across a spectrum of players operating at the intersection of language and (civil) law, including legal professionals, the hospitality industry,...
This paper deals with the systematic and meticulously organised extermination of human beings categorised as “unworthy of life” by the Nazi state, as described by Neugebauer and Czech (2010). It adopts an applied legal linguistics perspective with the aim of enhancing our understanding of the interplay of legal and medical discourses operative in N...
Call for Papers
The sixth International Legal Linguistics Workshop (ILLWS23) will be held on 9th December2023 and co-hosted by the Austrian Association for Legal Linguistics (AALL).The focus of the workshop is legal linguistics and forensic linguistics under the theme “Building Bridges within Language and Law”.It will primarily address, but is not...
Working Paper 1.0.
"The goals of Rotary and the NSDAP are the same": an exploration of discourses of commemoration and Rotary's role in National Socialism
Daniel Green
This article seeks to explore discourses of commemoration in the context of Rotary’s role in National Socialism (see Schäfer et al. 2020; Erdmann 2018; Wiesen 2009). It provides a...
The investigation of gender discourses in diplomacy has evolved into a fruitful field of inquiry (Kreft, Niklasson & Towns 2022; Rainer 2022; Anderson, Santaliestra & Suner 2021) which allows for interdisciplinary synergies between legal linguistics (Tripps, Vogel & Tonio 2022; Green & Green 2022), diplomatic studies (Cooper, Heine & Thakur 2015) a...
Discussions of diversity and homosexual acts in the context of criminal law often prove highly polarised. This paper is concerned with discourses of discrimination in criminal law, investigating the application of the legal concept of ‘same-sex fornication’ (‘gleichgeschlechtliche Unzucht’) by the Austrian Supreme Court in appeal cases between 1978...
Paper 8:
"Gegen den Angeklagten wurde daher auf die Todesstrafe als die allein angemessene Sühne seiner Schuld erkannt": Adjectival indeterminacy and the discursive legitimation of capital punishment in National Socialism
Daniel Green, Paul Schwarzenbacher, Barbara Justen, Lara Badrel-Din, Laura Levstock, René Foidl
Austrian Association for Legal L...
Call for Abstracts
The fifth International Legal Linguistics Workshop (ILLWS22) will be held on 10th December 2022 online and co-hosted by the Austrian Association for Legal Linguistics (AALL) and the Department of African Language Studies at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
The focus of the workshop is legal linguistics under th...
The fifth International Legal Linguistics Workshop (ILLWS22) will be held on 10th December 2022 online and co-hosted by the Austrian Association for Legal Linguistics (AALL) and the Department of African Language Studies at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. The focus of the workshop is legal linguistics under the theme “Legal Lingui...
The second conference of the Austrian Association for Legal Linguistics (AALL) is entitled Frontiers in Legal Linguistics and will be held from 24.11.2022 to 25.11.2022 at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien), co-hosted by the AALL and the Institute of English Business Communication (WU). The conference will...
Standard form contracts, such as Allgemeine Geschäftsbedingungen (henceforth GCT), are an integral discursive strategy in legal, business and organisational communication. GCT may indeed be described as “a pervasive feature of modern commercial life—for ordinary consumers and […] businesses alike” (Schwarcz 2021: 471), allowing for an efficient mas...
The second conference of the Austrian Association for Legal Linguistics (AALL) is entitled Frontiers in Legal Linguistics and will be held on November 25, 2022 at WU Vienna (Vienna University of Economics and Business), co-hosted by the AALL and the Institute of English Business Communication (WU).
In this volume, scholars explore and discuss current issues in Theoretical Legal Linguistics (TLL) and Applied Legal Linguistics (ALL), contributing to the growing body of international research in the field. Focus is placed on the interconnected skills, tasks and approaches to the study of legal language in its plethora of facets as presented at t...
Sprache spielt im Umweltrecht eine tragende Rolle. Der Klimawandeldiskurs zeigt deutliche Schnittmengen mit Umwelt-, Risiko- und Technikdiskursen, mit denen sich wissenschaftliche Disziplinen unterschiedlicher Schwerpunktsetzung beschäftigen. Medienwissenschaften, Politikwissenschaften, Sprachwissenschaften, Rechtswissenschaften und die Soziologie...
This article presents an empirical investigation into the construction of obedience in letters of applications mailed to National Socialist authorities for the position of executioner between the years 1933 and 1945. To this end, a corpus of 178 letters of application was compiled, annotated, and analyzed using the corpus analysis toolkits Antconc...
Terror. Terrorismus. Terrorist*innen. Diese Begriffe nehmen im medialen und öffentlichen Diskurs eine prominente Rolle ein und mitunter verschiedene Bedeutungen an. Angst vor der unerwarteten Gefahr wird nicht selten sozialen Gruppen als vermeintlichen Verursacherinnen zugeschrieben. Die Doktrin des gerechten Krieges, früher bekannt als »War on Ter...
Transcript S2E5: Legal German
This transcript has been edited for readability.
Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gjjntcj61Q&t=265s
Speakers
LG = Luke Green
DG = Daniel Green
Transcript
LG: By now we’ve established that German is tricky. It’s got long words, confusing grammar, and some people find it a little intimidating for that re...
Kohl and Nimmerfall, two legal scholars from the Faculty of Law at the University of Vienna, have put forth an edited volume dealing with 'law and language in practice'. In this article, I present a critical evaluation of the work, taking into consideration its structure and organisation, the range and depth of the work, and the construction of and...
The teaching and learning of Modern Hebrew as a second/foreign language (L2) may be considered a rare phenomenon in adult secondary education in Austria, with most Hebrew classes being offered by the Jewish communities, adult education centres (Volkshochschulen) and, at the tertiary levels, by university language centres. As with other calls for cu...
Lawyering is to a large extent languaging. Formal truth as textualised in the course of criminal trials corresponds to a certain social reality by means of language. However, language is sketchy, it is at times insufficient to express the complexity of our thoughts. For instance, optical illusions show us that our brain may process information from...
Article 2 of the Austrian School Organisation Act (Schulorganisationsgesetz, SchOG 1962) provides that school should equip students withthe knowledge and skills necessary for their life and future profession, and train them in the independent acquisition of education. However, legal literacy has been largely neglected in the Austrian education syst...
CALL FOR PAPERS
International Legal Linguistics Workshop (ILLWS21)
The fourth International Legal Linguistics Workshop (ILLWS21) will be organised by the Austrian Association for Legal Linguistics (AALL) as part of the 46th Austrian Linguistics Conference.
The focus of the workshop is legal linguistics. It will primarily address, but is not limited...
Discussions of diversity and homosexual acts in the context of criminal law often prove highly polarised. This paper is concerned with discourses of discrimination in criminal law, investigating the application of the legal concept of ‘same-sex fornication’ (‘gleichgeschlechtliche Unzucht’) by the Austrian Supreme Court in appeal cases between 1978...
e-Talk: Sprache, Recht & (Un)Verständlichkeit
Verständlichkeit ist ein zentraler Pfeiler des Rechtstaates. Nur wer die Sprache im Recht versteht, kann auch danach handeln. Rechtsanwendende und Rechtsunterworfene sind im Alltag gleichermaßen auf eine verständliche Rechtssprache angewiesen. Doch wann sind Bescheide, Anträge, Urteile, Schriftsätze, Re...
Art. 7 para 1 of the Austrian Federal Constitutional Act decrees: “All citizens are equal
before the law. Privileges of birth, gender, civil status, class and creed are ruled out”
(original: „Alle Staatsbürger sind vor dem Gesetz gleich. Vorrechte der Geburt, des
Geschlechtes, des Standes, der Klasse und des Bekenntnisses sind ausgeschlossen“, auth...
Dieser Beitrag zielt darauf ab, eine rechtslinguistische Perspektive auf die sprachlichen Konstruktionen von Professionellen und Nicht- Professionellen vorzustellen und im Hinblick auf die angenommene Alltagsferne des Strafprozessrechts zu reflektieren. Diese Aspekte sollen anhand des österreichischen Mandatsverfahrens betrachtet werden. Zwar stell...
Research on second language learning in people with Down syndrome has thus far largely focused on aspects such as syntax and vocabulary in the L2 as opposed to pronunciation, with studies on the latter generally being limited to the speakers’ L1. The articulation of speech sounds in the L2 of people with Down syndrome therefore remains largely unde...
Geschlechterrepräsentation in österreichischen Normtexten: Legist:*_/-Innen im Spannungsfeld zwischen Verständlichkeit, Geschlechtergerechtigkeit und Praxistauglichkeit Gender Representation in Austrian Legislative Texts: How Legal Drafters Strike a Balance Between Comprehensibility, Gender Equality and Practicality Artikel 7 Absatz 1 des österreic...
Goal: to promote interdisciplinary research in legal linguistics and related areas
"On the other hand, we know that the crisis will keep us busy for months, the virus will not disappear overnight, and in that sense it is important to move into a phase of so-called 'new normality'" (Chancellor Kurz, 8 April 2020). This online panel discussion deals with the relationship between language, law and the 'new normality' in times of the...
Social media platforms are arenas of self-presentation, recognition and belonging. They function as important tools of delineation from what teenagers tend to perceive as the world of adults (Götzenbrucker 2011: 120). In the digital age, journeys of becoming are, inter alia, co-determined by the way social capital is negotiated across social media,...
Geschlechterrepräsentation in österreichischen Normtexten: Legist:*_/-Innen im Spannungsfeld zwischen Verständlichkeit, Geschlechtergerechtigkeit und Praxistauglichkeit
Gender Representation in Austrian Legislative Texts: How Legal Drafters Strike a Balance Between Comprehensibility, Gender Equality and Practicality
Artikel 7 Absatz 1 des österre...
In legal linguistics, a distinction is made between legal and linguistic indeterminacy, whereby the former relates to unclarity as to the legal qualification of certain facts of a case, while the latter is concerned with indeterminacy resulting directly from language use (Endicott 2000) in social interaction. Research on the relationship between le...
Seven years after publishing the translation of the Austrian Civil Code in 2013, Eschig and Pircher–Eschig put forward a translation of the Austrian Business Code (UGB) into English. In this article, we present a review of the work, considering its structure, legal-linguistic equivalence, and culture-sensitive accuracy, and we evaluate the overall...
Artikel 9 des Übereinkommens über die Rechte von Menschen mit Behinderungen normiert die Setzung "geeignete[r] Maßnahmen mit dem Ziel, für Menschen mit Behinderungen gleichberechtigt mit anderen Zugang zu […] Information und Kommunikation […] zu gewährleisten." Menschen, deren Teilhabe am Rechtsverkehr durch die Auswirkung einer geistigen Funktions...
Sprache und Recht
Sprache, Recht und Literatur
Literatur und Recht spiegeln durch die Sprache das Menschsein in all seinen Spielarten. Während das Recht durch die Sprache nur gebieten kann, lässt die Literatur auch das (Un)sagbare zum Gesagten, das (Un)schreibbare zum Geschriebenen werden.
Diese Podiumsdiskussion befasst sich mit der Frage nach...
German:
„Die Datenschutzerklärung: Compliance in klarer und einfacher Sprache“ verbindet eine kompakte Darstellung des geltenden Datenschutzrechts unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Informationspflichten mit einer gebrauchsbasierten rechtslinguistischen Analyse von 350 Datenschutzerklärungen in Österreich tätiger Unternehmen.
Das Werk setzt sich...
Sprache und Recht 6
Sprache, Recht und Religionsfreiheit
Gemäß Art 14 Staatsgrundgesetz genießen alle Menschen in Österreich volle Glaubens- und Gewissensfreiheit. Trotzdem kommt es immer wieder zu Konflikten, die die Religionsausübung von Gläubigen betreffen. Ein Beispiel für einen solchen Konflikt ist die Debatte um die Einführung des Karfreita...
2nd International Legal Linguistics Workshop 2019 (ILLWS19)
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6th – 8th December 2019 // University of Salzburg
As part of the 45th Austrian Linguistics Conference (ÖLT2019), the 2nd Legal Linguistics Workshop 2019 (ILLWS19) will take place from 6th – 8th December...
Article 2 SchOG provides that school must equip students with the knowledge and skills necessary for their life and future profession, and train them in the independent acquisition of education. However, legal literacy, which can be understood as a “degree of competence in legal discourse required for meaningful and active life“ (Steininger & Rücke...
English
Law and multilingualism in Europe are inseparable. The very first EEC regulation of 1958 concerns the language question, and still governs the official and working languages of the European Union. Article 22 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU requires respect for linguistic diversity. The EU is committed to multilingualism and...
Wahlpflichtfach „Sprache und Recht“
am Bundesgymnasium, Bundesrealgymnasium und Wirtschaftskundliches Bundesrealgymnasium für Berufstätige 1210 Wien, Brünner Straße 72
Sprache und Recht 5
Sprache, Recht und Geschlecht
Die Sprache des Rechts schafft Lebensrealitäten in Bezug auf Geschlechtszuschreibung und Geschlechtsidentität. Am 15. Juni 2018 hat der Verfassungsgerichtshof entschieden, dass Menschen in Österreich ein Recht auf individuelle Geschlechtsidentität zugestanden werden muss. Staatliche Geschlechtszus...
„Sie haben das Recht, sich zu dem lhnen gemachten Tatvorwurf zu äußern oder nicht auszusagen. lhre Aussage kann lhrer Verteidigung dienen, aber auch als Beweis gegen Sie Verwendung finden“ (Ladung des Verdächtigen im Ermittlungsverfahren).
Dieser Beitrag zielt darauf ab, eine rechtslinguistische Perspektive auf die sprachliche Konstruktion des Laie...
Sprache und Recht 4
Sprache und Privatsphäre
Jeder Mensch hat das Recht auf die Achtung seines Privat- und Familienlebens. Mit dem 25.5.2018 trat die Datenschutz-Grundverordnung (DSGVO) in Geltung. Diese ist in allen EU-Mitgliedsstaaten unmittelbar anwendbar und soll Betroffenen von Datenverarbeitungen mehr Kontrolle über ihre personenbezogenen D...
The underlying question of this collection of essays focuses on the very core of our democratic culture. It asks how one can actively take part in its political, legal, educational, informational, social, cultural and economic mechanisms. Advanced technologies have given rise to a vast array of tools enabling a culture of participation. New forms o...
Article 12 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires data controllers to provide data subjects with any information relating to data processing operations “in a concise, transparent, intelligible and easily accessible form, using clear and plain language”. Linguistic inclusivity of privacy policies can thus no longer be considered a...
International Legal Linguistics Workshop 2018 (ILLWS18)
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26th-28th October 2018 // Leopold-Franzens-Universität, Innsbruck
This event is in German and English
As part of the 44th Austrian Linguistics Conference (ÖLT2018) from 26th – 28th October 2018, the 1st Leg...
„Sie haben das Recht, sich zu dem lhnen gemachten Tatvorwurf zu äußern oder nicht auszusagen. lhre Aussage kann lhrer Verteidigung dienen, aber auch als Beweis gegen Sie Verwendung finden.“
Seit 1. Jänner 2015 kann auf Antrag der Staatsanwaltschaft das Gericht eine Strafe durch schriftliche Strafverfügung ohne vorausgehende Hauptverhandlung ausspr...
The meaning of ethic adjectives, such as unjust, (un)reasonable, objective, malicious, and (un)true, is generally related to a socially-constructed “ethical standard or moral code” (Fjeld 2005: 164-166; Leisser 2017), which leads to issues in language interpretation. Under Austrian civil law, the rules on statutory interpretation and the body of ca...
Die Herrschaft des Rechts ist eine Herrschaft der Sprache, denn es gibt kein Recht ohne Sprache. Im ersten Teil dieser vierteiligen Diskussionsreihe widmen wir uns der Beziehung zwischen Sprache und Recht im Hinblick auf die oft zitierte »Verrechtlichung« der modernen Gesellschaft mit besonderem Augenmerk auf das österreichische Recht. Welche sprac...
Wahlpflichtfach "Recht und Gerechtigkeit" am Bundesgymnasium, Bundesrealgymnasium und Wirtschaftskundliches Bundesrealgymnasium für Berufstätige 1210 Wien, Brünner Straße 72
This book represents a collection of quantitative studies on language aptitude in the context of psychology, the language sciences, and cognitive neuroscience. Throughout this book the authors bring together interdisciplinary approaches to language aptitude and its constituents in order to both inspire researchers and contribute to the testing of a...
In social cognitive theory it is a common assumption that individuals are not merely passive recipients of external factors, but are able to form and affect their environment. Self-efficacy has been described as one of the major factors seemingly connected with the development of linguistic competence. A considerable amount of research has been con...
It is doubtful whether the normative space is a participatory space. The language of the law is a language of institutional power, which is evident in the divergence between ordinary language interpretation and institutionalised meaning-making processes (Fjeld 2005; Leisser 2017). Assuming that linguistic indeterminacy plays a crucial role in the i...
Gutachten:
"This thesis is a study of the indeterminacy of legal language as exemplified by the English translation of the Austrian Civil Code. Early chapters pass under critical review concepts of indeterminacy as discussed in the pragmatics literature and relate them to the different kinds of interpretation that are proposed by writers on legal...
Questions
Questions (4)
Parties may utilize strategic indeterminacy in legal texts, such as contracts, privacy policies, or terms of service. The use of such strategic indeterminacy does not necessarily require an intention to present untrue or misleading information on the part of the party drafting the text. Arguably, it may be sufficient that this party accepts the potential consequences arising due to the use of indeterminacy. [1]
Is "strategic indeterminacy" an empirically recoverable variable in legal texts (e.g. contracts, privacy policies, terms of service)? If so, how can we account for it?
[1] Riley, Kathryn. ‘Telling More than the Truth: Implicature, Speech Acts, and Ethics in Professional Communication’. Journal of Business Ethics 12, no. 3 (1993): 179–96.
Which conceptual boundaries would you consider pivotal for a theoretical understanding of the term?
A question that seems obvious to some, but really is not an easy one.
