TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gibbons,John
TI  - Language and the law
T2  - Language in social life series
SN  - 058210145X
AV  - K213. L35 1994
U1  - 808.06634 
PY  - 1994///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Longman
KW  - Law
KW  - Language
KW  - Legal composition
KW  - Psycholinguistics
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - 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
ER  -