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Legal-lay communication : textual travels in the law
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heffer, Chris, Editor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Communication in law--Philosophy.
- Communication in law.
- Law--Language.
- Law.
- Communication in law enforcement--Social aspects--Codification.
- Communication in law enforcement.
- Sociological jurisprudence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 332 pages)
- Other Title:
- Legal-lay communication
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford University Press 2013
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 'Legal-Lay Communication' combines a range of perspectives on a key theme in language and law with a specific theoretical focus on how texts 'travel' through the legal process. The chapters in the book explore aspects of legal-lay communication, or those nodes of interaction where the legal world meets the everyday lifeworld. This may involve instances when people acting for the legal system, from police call-handlers to judges, interact with people encountering the legal process in a lay role, for example, as witnesses and suspects, though this transparent reading of 'legal' and 'lay' is challenged in the book.
- Contents:
- Contributors Introduction PART ONE: Police Investigation as Textual Mediation PART TWO: The Legal Case as Intertextual Construction PART THREE: Judicial Discourse as Legal Recontextualization PART FOUR: Crossing Cultural and Ideological Categories in Lay - Legal Communication
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 24, 2013).
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