Legal-lay communication : textual travels in the law
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Legal-lay communication : textual travels in the law
（Oxford studies in sociolinguistics / Edward Finegan, general editor）
Oxford University Press, c2013
- : pbk
Available at 3 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume responds to a growing interest in the language of legal settings by situating the study of language and law within contemporary theoretical debates in discourse studies, linguistic anthropology, and sociolinguistics. The chapters in the collection explore many of the common occasions when those acting on behalf of the legal system, such as the police, lawyers and judges, interact with those coming into contact with the legal system, such as suspects and
witnesses. However the chapters do this work through the conceptual lens of 'textual travel', or the way that texts move across space and time and are transformed along the way. Collectively, notions of textual travel shed new light on the ways in which texts can influence, and are influenced by,
social and legal life.
With contributions from leading experts in language and law, Legal-Lay Communication explores such 'textual travel' themes as the mediating role of technologies in the investigatory stages of the legal process, the centrality of intertextuality in the legal construction of cases in court, the transformative effects of recontextualization in processes of judicial decision-making, and the way that processes of textual travel disturb the apparent permanence of legal categorization. The
book challenges both the notion of legal text as a static repository of meaning and the very idea of legal-lay or lay-legal communication.
Table of Contents
- I. INTRODUCTION
- 1. Textual Travel in Legal-Lay Communication
- Frances Rock, Chris Heffer and John Conley
- II. POLICE INVESTIGATION AS TEXTUAL MEDIATION
- 2. The Transformation of Discourse in Emergency Calls to the Police
- Mark Garner and Edward Johnson
- 3. From Legislation to the Courts: Providing Safe Passage for Legal Texts through the Challenges of a Police Interview
- Georgina Heydon
- 4. 'Every Link in the Chain': The Police Interview as Textual Intersection
- Frances Rock
- III. THE LEGAL CASE AS INTERTEXTUAL CONSTRUCTION
- 5. Theatrics in the Courtroom: The Intertextual Construction of Legal Cases
- Katrijn Maryns
- 6. Talk and Text in the Criminal Law Process
- Martha Komter
- 7. Embedding Police Interviews in the Prosecution Case in the Shipman Trial
- Alison Johnson
- 8. Tracing the Crime Narratives within the Palmer Trial (1856): From the Lawyer's Opening Speeches to the Judge's Summing Up
- Dawn Archer
- IV. JUDICIAL DISCOURSE AS LEGAL RECONTEXTUALIZATION
- 9. Post-Penetration Rape and the Decontextualization of Witness Testimony
- Susan Ehrlich
- 10. Communication and Magic: Authorized Voice, Legal-Linguistic Habitus and the Recontextualization of "Beyond Reasonable Doubt"
- Chris Heffer
- 11. Troubling the Legal-Lay Distinction: Litigant Briefs, Oral Argument, and a Public Hearing about Same-Sex Marriage
- Karen Tracy and Erica Delgadillo
- V. CROSSING CULTURAL AND IDEOLOGICAL CATEGORIES IN LAY-LEGAL COMMUNICATION
- 12. The Discourse of DNA: Giving Informed Consent to Genetic Research
- John Conley, Jean Cadigan, Arlene Davis, Allison Dobson,Erin Edwards, Wendell Fortson and Robert Mitchell
- 13. Travelling Texts: The Legal-Lay Interface in The Highway Code
- Bethan Davies
- 14. The Journey Beyond Legitimacy: Moving Forward from What We Know about
- Rape
- Shonna Trinch
- VI. CONCLUSION
- 15. Travelled Texts
- John Conley, Chris Heffer, Frances Rock
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