Legal-lay communication : textual travels in the law /

'Legal-Lay Communication' combines a range of perspectives on a key theme in language and law with a specific theoretical focus on how texts 'travel' through the legal process. The chapters in the book explore aspects of legal-lay communication, or those nodes of interaction wher...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Heffer, Chris, Rock, Frances, 1974-, Conley, John M.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, ©2013.
Subjects:	Communication in law > Philosophy. Law > Language. Communication in law enforcement. Sociological jurisprudence. Law > Codification > Social aspects. Communication en droit > Philosophie. Communication dans l'application des lois. Sociologie juridique. Droit > Codification > Aspect social. LAW > Dictionaries & Terminology. Communication in law enforcement Law > Language Sociological jurisprudence Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Textual travel in legal-lay communication / Frances Rock, Chris Heffer and John Conley
The transformation of discourse in emergency calls to the police / Mark Garner and Edward Johnson
From legislation to the courts: providing safe passage for legal texts through the challenges of a police interview / Georgina Heydon
'Every link in the chain': the police interview as textual intersection / Frances Rock
Theatrics in the courtroom: the intertextual construction of legal cases / Katrijn Maryns
Talk and text in the criminal law process / Martha Komter
Embedding police interviews in the prosecution case in the Shipman trial / Alison Johnson
Tracing the crime narratives within the Palmer trial (1856): from the lawyer's opening speeches to the judge's summing up / Dawn Archer
Post-penetration rape and the decontextualization of witness testimony / Susan Ehrlich
Communication and magic: authorized voice, legal-linguistic habitus and the recontextualization of "beyond reasonable doubt" / Chris Heffer
Troubling the legal-lay distinction: litigant briefs, oral argument, and a public hearing
About same-sex marriage / Karen Tracy and Erica Delgadillo
The discourse of DNA: giving informed consent to genetic research / John Conley, Jean Cadigan, Arlene Davis, Allison Dobson, Erin Edwards, Wendell Fortson and Robert Mitchell
Travelling texts: the legal-lay interface in the highway code / Bethan Davies
The journey beyond legitimacy: moving forward from what we know about rape / Shonna Trinch
Travelled texts / John Conley, Chris Heffer, Frances Rock.