Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/7405
Title: Sociolinguistics and the Legal Process
Contributor(s): Eades, Diana  (author)
Publication Date: 2010
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/7405
Abstract: Language is central to the legal process: written laws, judicial decisions, police interviews, competing claims in a dispute, courtroom evidence, legal argument, mediation hearings, all of these events or products of the legal process are carried out through language, whether written or spoken or both. Lawyers have to be 'good with language' to succeed in their profession. Indeed, some might argue that success in any legal process depends to a considerable degree on the linguistic dexterity of participants, including witnesses, litigants and legal professionals. This book is intended as a textbook for a university or college postgraduate or advanced undergraduate course in which sociolinguistics is used in an examination of the legal process. Some students will know nothing about the legal process, and some will know nothing about sociolinguistics. ... Further background about sociolinguistics and law will be provided as necessary throughout the text.
Publication Type: Book
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 1847692559
9781847692542
1847692540
9781847692535
1847692532
9781847692559
Fields of Research (FOR) 2008: 160103 Linguistic Anthropology
200405 Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics)
180119 Law and Society
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 950201 Communication Across Languages and Culture
940406 Legal Processes
970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture
970118 Expanding Knowledge in Law and Legal Studies
HERDC Category Description: A1 Authored Book - Scholarly
Publisher/associated links: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847692535
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/36765116
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=p6kL6hvHXtgC
Extent of Pages: 303
Series Name: MM Textbooks
Series Number : 5
Appears in Collections:Book
School of Psychology

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