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    Just words : law, language, and power / John M. Conley, William M. O'Barr, and Robin Conley Riner.

    • Title:Just words : law, language, and power / John M. Conley, William M. O'Barr, and Robin Conley Riner.
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    • Author/Creator:Conley, John M., author.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:O'Barr, William M., author.
      Conley Riner, Robin, author.
    • Published/Created:Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Law--Language.
      Equality before the law.
      English language--Rhetoric--Sex differences.
      Communication in law.
      Sociological jurisprudence.
    • Edition:Third edition.
    • Description:xviii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
    • Series:Chicago series in law and society.
    • 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.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-232) and index.
    • ISBN:9780226484228 (cloth : alk. paper)
      022648422X (cloth : alk. paper)
      9780226484365 (pbk. : alk. paper)
      022648436X (pbk. : alk. paper)
      9780226484532 (e-book)
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Politics of Law and the Science of Talk
      Why We Wrote This Book
      Basic Concepts: Language, Discourse, and Power
      Origins of Law and Language Research
      Sociolinguistics
      Law and Society
      Shortcomings of the Fields in Isolation
      Conclusion: Combining Concerns
      2. Re victimization of Rape Victims
      Rape and Power
      Principles of Conversation Analysis
      Conversation Analysis of Rape Trials
      Silence
      Question Form
      Topic Management
      Commentary
      Witness's Capacity for Knowledge
      Is It Really about Rape?
      Sexual Double Bind
      Sexual History
      Conclusion: Rape and the Power of Discourse
      3. Language of Mediation
      What a Mediation Session Is Like
      Restoring Civility
      Structure of Mediation
      Moral Order of Mediation
      Summary
      Macrodiscourse of Mediation
      Microdiscourse of Mediation
      Conclusion: Is Mediator Bias Systematic?
      4. Speaking of Patriarchy
      Gender and Equality
      Stylistic Variation in Courtroom Talk
      Powerlessness and Patriarchy
      Logic of Legal Accounts
      Rule-Oriented Account
      Relational Account
      Conclusion: An Alternative Vision of Justice
      5. Natural History of Disputing
      Naming, Blaming, and Claiming
      Language-Based Model of Naming and Blaming
      Claiming Process
      What Happens When Disputes Reach the Legal System?
      Transformation in the Small Claims Court
      Transformation in the Lawyer's Office
      Reflections on Transformations
      Conclusion: Toward a Natural History of Disputing
      6. Discourses of Law in Cross-Cultural Perspective
      Questioning Huli Women
      Goldman on Accident
      Verb Forms and Accidents
      Ergativity
      Repairing Relationships in Weyewa
      Conclusion: Has Legal Anthropology Missed the Point?
      7. Language Ideology and the Law
      Defining Terms
      Importance of Studying Language Ideology
      Power of Language Ideology in Legal Contexts
      Language Ideologies in American Courts
      Language Ideologies in Kenyan Divorce Courts
      Conclusion
      8. Forensic Linguistics
      Law of Expert Witnesses
      Denning Forensic Linguistics
      Tracking the Footprints of Linguistics in the Law
      Elizabeth Loftus and Eyewitness Testimony
      Roger Shuy's Linguistic Battles
      Forensic Linguistics and Power
      Going Forward: A Linguistically Driven Forensic Linguistics
      9. Multimodal Communication in the Courtroom
      Defining Multimodality
      Multimodal Aspects of Legal Interaction
      Charles Goodwin: Ways of Seeing in the Rodney King Trial
      Gregory Matoesian: Reproducing Rape through Multimodal Interaction
      Robin Conley Riner: Multimodality and Capital Jury Decision-Making
      Law, Language, and Multimodality
      10. Language and Race in the Courtroom
      Relationship between Race and Language
      AAVE in the Zimmerman Trial: The Prosecution's Case (Rickford and King 2016)
      AAVE in the Zimmerman Trial: The Defense's Cross-Examination (Slobe 2016)
      Pauses and Silence
      Deixis
      Linguistic Profiling
      Conclusion: Can Anything Be Done?
      11. Conclusion
      Where Does Legal Language Come From?
      Learning How to Argue
      How Do Lawyers Learn Legal Discourse?
      Comparative Legal Discourse
      Deconstructing Law Reform
      Sociolinguists in the Legal World
      Law and Society, Law and Language.
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