Language and the law /
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| Format: | Book |
| 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:
- The language of the law / Yon Maley
- Accident and absolute liability in anthropology / Laurence Goldman
- Orality, literacy, and performativity in Anglo-Saxon wills / Brenda Danet and Bryna Bogoch
- Cognitive structuring in legislative provisions / Vijay Bhatia
- Ideological exchanges in British magistrates courts / Sandra Harris
- Video depositions : linguistic endorsements and caveats / Bethyl A. Pearson and Rebecca White Berch
- Lawyer's response to language constructing law / Margaret O'Toole
- Cross-examining children in criminal courts : child welfare under attack / Mark Brennan
- Interactional styles in the courtroom : an example from northern Australia / Michael Walsh
- A case of communicative clash : Aboriginal English and the legal system / Diana Eades
- Addressing social issues through linguistic evidence / William Labov and Wendell A. Harris
- Lawyer's response to language and disadvantage before the law / John Carroll. Auditory and acoustic analysis in speaker recognition / Francis Nolan
- The limitations of voice identification / Alex Jones
- Forensic analysis of personal written texts: a case study / Robert Eagleson
- Computers, statistics and disputed authorship / Wilfrid Smith
- Powerful evidence for the defence: an exercise in forensic discourse analysis / Malcolm Coulthard
- Confidentiality of linguistic material: the case of Aboriginal land claims / Jane Simpson
- Lawyer''s response to forensic linguistics / Dyson Heydon.