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1 online resource |
Contents |
Textual travel in legal-lay communication / Frances Rock, Chris Heffer and John Conley -- The transformation of discourse in emergency calls to the police / Mark Garner and Edward Johnson -- From legislation to the courts: providing safe passage for legal texts through the challenges of a police interview / Georgina Heydon -- 'Every link in the chain': the police interview as textual intersection / Frances Rock -- Theatrics in the courtroom: the intertextual construction of legal cases / Katrijn Maryns -- Talk and text in the criminal law process / Martha Komter -- Embedding police interviews in the prosecution case in the Shipman trial / Alison Johnson -- Tracing the crime narratives within the Palmer trial (1856): from the lawyer's opening speeches to the judge's summing up / Dawn Archer -- Post-penetration rape and the decontextualization of witness testimony / Susan Ehrlich -- Communication and magic: authorized voice, legal-linguistic habitus and the recontextualization of "beyond reasonable doubt" / Chris Heffer -- Troubling the legal-lay distinction: litigant briefs, oral argument, and a public hearing -- About same-sex marriage / Karen Tracy and Erica Delgadillo -- 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 -- Travelling texts: the legal-lay interface in the highway code / Bethan Davies -- The journey beyond legitimacy: moving forward from what we know about rape / Shonna Trinch -- Travelled texts / John Conley, Chris Heffer, Frances Rock |
Summary |
'Legal-Lay Communication' combines a range of perspectives on a key theme in language and law with a specific theoretical focus on how texts 'travel' through the legal process. The chapters in the book explore aspects of legal-lay communication, or those nodes of interaction where the legal world meets the everyday lifeworld. This may involve instances when people acting for the legal system, from police call-handlers to judges, interact with people encountering the legal process in a lay role, for example, as witnesses and suspects, though this transparent reading of 'legal' and 'lay' is challenged in the book |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Communication in law -- Philosophy
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Law -- Language.
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Communication in law enforcement.
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Sociological jurisprudence.
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Law -- Codification -- Social aspects
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LAW -- Dictionaries & Terminology.
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Communication in law enforcement
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Law -- Language
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Sociological jurisprudence
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Electronic book
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Author |
Heffer, Chris
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Rock, Frances, 1974-
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Conley, John M
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ISBN |
9780199359202 |
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0199359202 |
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9780199345052 |
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0199345058 |
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