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Title: Theorising language in sociolinguistics and the law: (How) can sociolinguistics have an impact on inequality in the criminal justice process?
Contributor(s): Eades, Diana  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2016
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/19479
Abstract: A common complaint about the legal system is that lawyers can manipulate people with complex language, such as "big words" and "tricky questions". But sociolinguistic research, beginning in the early 1980s and examining a number of legal contexts, demonstrates many more ways in which language is implicated in the widespread popular dissatisfaction with the law, For example, research in criminal courts shows how defendants and witnesses are controlled, coerced, and manipulated through the rigid and asymmetrical discourse structure of courtroom hearings, which restricts the interactional rights of witnesses to providing answers to specific questions (see Eades 2010 for references). More recently, considerable sociolinguistic attention has turned to how competing stories can, or must, be told, retold, and evaluated throughout the criminal justice process. This chapter examines a theoretical dissonance between how sociolinguistics and the law see language, which is highlighted in this research.
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Source of Publication: Sociolinguistics: Theoretical Debates, p. 367-388
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication: Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781107062283
9781107635753
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 200405 Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics)
180119 Law and Society
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 470411 Sociolinguistics
480405 Law and society and socio-legal research
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 950201 Communication Across Languages and Culture
940406 Legal Processes
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 130201 Communication across languages and culture
230406 Legal processes
HERDC Category Description: B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book
Publisher/associated links: http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/226319545
Editor: Editor(s): Nikolas Coupland
Appears in Collections:Book Chapter
School of Psychology

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