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Legal-lay communication : textual travels in the law

Oxford Scholarship Online: Linguistics Available online

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Rock, Frances, 1974- Contributor.
Heffer, Chris, Contributor.
Conley, John M., Contributor.
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:
New York : 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.
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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