Language and the law / edited by John Gibbons.
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Longman,
1994.
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| Series: | Language in social life series.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.