Language in the judicial process /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Plenum Press,
[1990]
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| Series: | Law, society, and policy ;
v. 5. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The study of language in the judicial process / Judith N. Levi
- Analyzing language in legal settings
- Strategies in the contest between lawyer and witness in cross-examination / Paul Drew
- Narratives and narrative structure in plea bargaining / Douglas W. Maynard
- Litigant satisfaction versus legal adequacy in small claims court narratives / William M. O'Barr and John M. Conley
- Legal realism in lawyer-client communication / Austin Sarat and William L. F. Felstiner
- Transforming language in legal proceedings
- Bilingual court proceedings: the role of court interpreter / Susan Berk-Seligson
- Language at work in the law: the customs, conventions, and appellate consequences of court reporting / Anne Graffam Walker
- Construing language for legal purposes
- Linguistic analysis of conversation as evidence regarding the interpretation of speech events / Georgia M. Green
- On the use of social conversation as evidence in a court of law / Ellen F. Prince
- Language and cognition in products liability / Michael G. Johnson
- Adequacy of cigarette package warnings: an analysis of adequacy of federally mandated cigarette package warnings / Bethany K. Dumas
- Epilogue: where do we go from here? / Anne Graffam Walker.