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Just Words, Second Edition
John M. Conley
William M. O'Barr
其他書名
Law, Language, and Power
出版
University of Chicago Press
, 2005-06-20
主題
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric
Law / General
Law / Jurisprudence
Law / Reference
Law / Trial Practice
Law / Discrimination
Social Science / Gender Studies
ISBN
0226114880
9780226114880
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=NmdbpApOzz8C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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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, 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 that will be welcomed by students and specialists alike.