Just Words: Law, Language, and Power, Third Edition - Couverture souple

Conley, John M.; O'Barr, William M.; Conley Riner, Robin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 022648436X ISBN 13 : 9780226484365

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2019

Synopsis

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.

John M. Conley, William M. O'Barr, and Robin Conley Riner 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, from the cross-examinations of victims and witnesses to the inequities of divorce mediation. Combining analysis of common legal events with a broad range of scholarship on language and law, Just Words seeks the reality of power in the everyday practice and application of the law. As the only study of its type, the book is the definitive treatment of the topic and will be welcomed by students and specialists alike. This third edition brings this essential text up to date with new chapters on nonverbal, or “multimodal,” communication in legal settings and law, language, and race.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

John M. Conley is the William Rand Kenan, Jr., Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina Law School.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 022648436X
• ISBN 13: 9780226484365
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 261
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• Personne responsable: non disponible