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Author Conley, John M., author

Title Just words : law, language, and power / John M. Conley, William M. O'Barr, and Robin Conley Riner
Edition Third edition
Published Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019

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Description xviii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Chicago series in law and society
Contents The politics of law and the science of talk -- The revictimization of rape victims -- The language of mediation -- Speaking of patriarchy -- A natural history of disputing -- The discourses of law in cross-cultural perspective -- Language ideology and the law -- Forensic linguistics -- Multimodal communication in the courtroom -- Language and race in the courtroom
Summary 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, Just Words focuses on what has become the 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 books] seeks the reality of power in the everyday practice and application of the law. As the only study of its type, the book is the definitive treatment of the topic and will be welcomed by students and specialists alike. This third edition brings this essential text up to date with new chapters on nonverbal, or 'multimodal, ' communication in legal settings and law, language, and race."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-232) and index
Subject Law -- Language
Equality before the law
English language -- Rhetoric -- Sex differences
Communication in law
Sociological jurisprudence
Author O'Barr, William M., author
Conley Riner, Robin, author
LC no. 2018030504
ISBN 9780226484228
022648422X
9780226484365
022648436X