Part 1: Language constructing law
Introduction, John Gibbons
1. The language of the law, Yon Maley
2. Accident and absolute liability in anthropology, Laurence
Goldman
3. Orality, literacy, and performativity in Anglo-Saxon wills,
Brenda Danet and Bryna Bogoch
4. Cognitive structuring in legislative provisions, Vijay
Bhatia
5. Ideological exchanges in British magistrate courts, Snadra
Harris
6. Video depositions: linguistic endorsement and caveats, Bethyl A.
Pearson and Rebecca White Berch
7. Lawyer's response to language constructing law, Margaret
O'Toole
Part 2: Language and disadvantage before the law
Introduction, John Gibbons
8. Cross-examining children in criminal courts: child welfare under
attack, Mark Brennan
9. Interactional styles in the courtroom: an example from northern
Australia, Michael Walsh
10. A case of communicative clash: Aboriginal English and the legal
system, Diana Eades
11. Addressing social issues through linguistic evidence, William
Labov and Wendell A. Harris
12. Lawyer's response to language and disadvantage before the law,
John Carroll
Part 3: Forensic linguistics
Introduction, John Gibbons
13. Auditory and acoustic analysis in speaker recognition, Francis
Nolan
14. The limitations of voice identification, Alex Jones
15. Forensic analysis of personal written texts: a case study,
Robert Eagleson
16. Computers, statistics and disputed authorship, Wilfred
Smith
17. Powerful evidence for the defence: an exercise in
forensic discourse analysis, Malcolm Coulthard
18. Confidentiality of linguistic material: the case of Aboriginal
land claims, Jane Simpson
19. Lawyer's response to forensic linguistics, Dyson Heydon
Bibliography
Index
John Peter Gibbons
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