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Just Words - Law, Language, and Power, Third Edition (Paperback, 3rd edition)
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Just Words - Law, Language, and Power, Third Edition (Paperback, 3rd edition)
Series: Chicago Series in Law and Society
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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. 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.
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