Journal of Diplomatic Language
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January, 2007

THE INAUGURAL ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL OF DIPLOMATIC LANGUAGE
ISSN 1550-607X, Vol. 1, No. 4, 2004

A Message from the Editors

Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Journal of Diplomatic Language (JDL). We hope that you will find the journal's articles to be timely and thought provoking. JDL is intended to provide a forum for the discussion of scholarly and professional issues pertaining to the language of diplomacy. The focus will be on research findings, advancement of new theories, discussions of current issues, reports on significant advances in technology, and analyses of innovative methodologies in the field of diplomatic language.

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ARTICLE 1:  Content Analysis of Short, Structured Texts: The Need for Multifaceted Strategies by Dr. Harold W. Bashor, American Graduate School of International Relations and Diplomacy, Paris, France.

ARTICLE 2:    Visualizing Co-occurrence Structures in Political Language: Content Analysis, Multidimensional Scaling, and Unrooted Cluster Trees by Dr. Lawrence Alfred Powell, Department of Government, University of the West Indies-Jamaica.

ARTICLE 3:   Difficulties Encountered in the Translation of Legal Texts: The Case of Turkey by Dr. Ayfer Altay, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.

ARTICLE 4:   The Role of Communication in Peace and Relief Mission Negotiations by Victoria Edwards, senior social and economic analyst at the Privy Council Office in Ottawa, Canada.

ARTICLE 5:   An Analysis of the Resurgence of Anti-Semitism in France by Sylvie Bacquet, American Graduate School of International Relations and Diplomacy, Paris, France.

ARTICLE 6:   Differences in Participants' Estimates and Identification of Their Own and Their Partners' Sarcastic Utterances by Dr. Patricia Rockwell, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

ARTICLE 7:   The Problem of Terminological Equivalence in International Maritime Law: the case of 'hypothèque' and 'mortgage' in the document Final Act and International Convention on Maritime Liens and Mortgages by Gemma Capellas-Espuny. Ms. Capellas is registered as an official translator appointed by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and at present she is working as a temporary translator in various international organizations seated in Geneva.

ARTICLE 8:   On the Self-Defeating Language of Martyrs and Homicide Bombers by Dr. Avery Plaw. Avery Plaw is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Concordia University in Montreal specializing in Political Philosophy and International Relations.