Just words : law, language, and power
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Just words : law, language, and power
（Language and legal discourse）
University of Chicago Press, 1998
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- : pbk. : alk. paper
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-163) and index
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: cloth : alk. paper ISBN 9780226114866
Description
Is it "just words" when a lawyer cross-examines a rape victim in the hopes of getting her to admit an interest in her attacker? Is it "just words" when the Supreme Court hands down a decision or when business people draw-up a contract? In tackling the question of how an abstract entity exerts concrete power, this text focuses on what has become a central issue in law and language research: what language reveals about the nature of legal power. The authors show how the microdynamics of the legal process and the largest questions of justice can be fruitfully explored through the field of linguistics. Each chapter covers a language-based approach to a different area of the law, from the cross-examinations of victims and witnesses to the inequities of divorce mediation. Combining analysis of common legal events with a broad range of scholarship on language and law, this volume seeks the reality of power in the everyday practice and application of the law.
Table of Contents
Preface Acknowledgments Note on Transcript Conventions 1: The Politics of Law and the Science of Talk 2: The Revictimization of Rape Victims 3: The Language of Mediation 4: Speaking of Patriarchy 5: A Natural History of Disputing 6: The Discourses of Law In Cross-Cultural Perspective 7: The Discourses of Law in Historical Perspective 8: Conclusion Notes References Index
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: pbk. : alk. paper ISBN 9780226114873
Description
Is it "just words" when a lawyer cross-examines a rape victim in the hopes of getting her to admit an interest in her attacker? Is it "just words" when the Supreme Court hands down a decision or when business people draw-up a contract? In tackling the question of how an abstract entity exerts concrete power, this text focuses on what has become a central issue in law and language research: what language reveals about the nature of legal power. The authors show how the microdynamics of the legal process and the largest questions of justice can be fruitfully explored through the field of linguistics. Each chapter covers a language-based approach to a different area of the law, from the cross-examinations of victims and witnesses to the inequities of divorce mediation. Combining analysis of common legal events with a broad range of scholarship on language and law, this volume seeks the reality of power in the everyday practice and application of the law.
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