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Legal-Lay Communication - Textual Travels in the Law (Paperback)
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Legal-Lay Communication - Textual Travels in the Law (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
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This volume responds to a growing interest in the language of legal
settings by situating the study of language and law within
contemporary theoretical debates in discourse studies, linguistic
anthropology, and sociolinguistics. The chapters in the collection
explore many of the common occasions when those acting on behalf of
the legal system, such as the police, lawyers and judges, interact
with those coming into contact with the legal system, such as
suspects and witnesses. However the chapters do this work through
the conceptual lens of 'textual travel', or the way that texts move
across space and time and are transformed along the way.
Collectively, notions of textual travel shed new light on the ways
in which texts can influence, and are influenced by, social and
legal life. With contributions from leading experts in language and
law, Legal-Lay Communication explores such 'textual travel' themes
as the mediating role of technologies in the investigatory stages
of the legal process, the centrality of intertextuality in the
legal construction of cases in court, the transformative effects of
recontextualization in processes of judicial decision-making, and
the way that processes of textual travel disturb the apparent
permanence of legal categorization. The book challenges both the
notion of legal text as a static repository of meaning and the very
idea of legal-lay or lay-legal communication.
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