Courtroom Talk and Neocolonial Control /

Courtroom Talk and Neocolonial Control / / Diana Eades.

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The book uses critical sociolinguistic analysis to examine the social consequences of courtroom talk. The focus of the study is the cross-examination of three Australian Aboriginal boys who were prosecution witnesses in the case of six police officers charged with their abduction. The analysis revea...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
VerfasserIn:
Eades, Diana,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP] , 22
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Physical Description:1 online resource (389 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Part I: Aboriginal participation in the criminal
  • justice system
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Setting the theoretical scene
  • Chapter 3. The societal and institutional
  • struggle
  • Part II: Evidence given in unequivocal
  • terms?
  • Chapter 4. Features of Aboriginal English
  • communicative style
  • Chapter 5. Lexical strategies
  • Part III: Constructing the identities of the
  • witnesses
  • Chapter 6. Linguistic mechanisms for identity
  • construction
  • Chapter 7. Absolutely no regard whatsoever for law
  • and order: David
  • Chapter 8. More court appearances than some
  • solicitors: Albert
  • Chapter 9. Not a person to be overborne:
  • Barry
  • Part IV: Conclusions
  • Chapter 10. No fear of the police: closing the
  • Pinkenba case
  • Chapter 11. Developments since the Pinkenba
  • case
  • Chapter 12. The power of courtroom talk
  • Backmatter

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