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Law and the Language of Identity : Discourse in the William Kennedy Smith Rape Trial - Softcover

M. Matoesian, Gregory

 
9780195123302: Law and the Language of Identity : Discourse in the William Kennedy Smith Rape Trial
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0195123301 ISBN 13: 9780195123302
Publisher: Oxford University Press USA, 2001

Synopsis

Notes on Transcription Introduction 1. Overview of the William Kennedy Smith Rape Trial PART I: REPETITION IN THE PATRIARCHAL ORDER 2. Rhythms of Domination and the Gender of Inconsistency 3. Poetics of Space, Direction, and Movement PART II: INTERTEXTUALITY 4. Intertextuality, Reported Speech, and Affect 5. Production Media and Intertextual Authority in Reported Speech PART III: THE CONSTRUCTION AND DECONSTRUCTION OF EXPERT IDENTITY 6. The Grammaticalization of Participant Roles in the Constitution of Expert Identity 7. Constructing Age Identity in Expert Testimony PART IV: LANGUAGE AND LEGAL CHANGE 8. The Microdynamics of Legal Change Notes References Index

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Review

"This work is at the cutting edge of contemporary sociolinguistic theory. Law and the Language of Identity reflects a very high level of scholarship. The technical linguistic analysis is particularly brilliant."--Susan Hirsch, Author of Pronouncing and Persevering and Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies at Wesleyan University

Synopsis

In this volume, Gregory Matoesian uses the notorious 1991 rape trial of William Kennedy Smith to provide an in-depth analysis of language use and its role in that specific trial as well as in the law in general. He draws on the fields of conversation analysis, ethnomethodology, linguistic anthropology and social theory to show how language practices shape-and are shaped by-culture and the law, particularly in the social construction of rape as a legal fact. This analysis examines linguistic strategies from both defence and prosecution viewpoints, and how they relate to issues of gender, sexual identity, and power.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press USA
Publication date
2001
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0195123301
ISBN 13 
9780195123302
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
280