Language and the law / edited by John Gibbons.
Material type: TextSeries: Language in social life seriesPublisher: London ; New York : Longman, 1994Description: xiv, 476 : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 058210145X
- 9780582101456
- 0582229766
- 9780582229761
- 808.06634
- K213. L35 1994
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-469) and index.
List of Contributors -- General Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: language constructing law -- 1. The language of the law -- 2. Accident and absolute liability in anthropology -- 3. Orality, literacy, and performativity in Anglo-Saxon wills -- 4. Cognitive structuring in legislative provisions -- 5. Ideological exchanges in British magistrates courts -- 6. Video depositions: linguistic endorsement and caveats -- 7. Lawyer's response to language constructing law -- Language and disadvantage before the law -- 8. Cross-examining children in criminal courts: child welfare under attack -- 9. Interactional styles in the courtroom: an example from northern Australia -- 10. A case of communicative clash: Aboriginal English and the legal system -- 11. Addressing social issues through linguistic evidence -- 12. Lawyer's response to language and disadvantage before the law -- Forensic linguistics -- 13. Auditory and acoustic analysis in speaker recognition -- 14. The limitations of voice identification -- 15. Forensic analysis of personal written texts: a case study -- 16. Computers, statistics and disputed authorship -- 17. Powerful evidence for the defence: an exercise in forensic discourse analysis -- 18. Confidentiality of linguistic material: the case of Aboriginal land claims -- 19. Lawyer's response to forensic linguistics -- Bibliography -- Index.
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