Just Words Law, Language, and Power

Name: Just Words Law, Language, and Power
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ISBN: 9780226114880

ISBN-10: 0226114880

ISBN-13: 9780226114880

Edition: 2nd 2005

Authors: John M. Conley, William M. O'Barr

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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. Conley and O'Barr 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,…

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List price: $20.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/20/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Note on Transcript Conventions



The Politics of Law and the Science of Talk



The Revictimization of Rape Victims



The Language of Mediation



Speaking of Patriarchy



A Natural History of Disputing



The Discourses of Law In Cross-Cultural Perspective



The Discourses of Law in Historical Perspective



Conclusion


Notes


References


Index