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Sociolinguistics and the Legal Process

Diana Eades

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Description for Sociolinguistics and the Legal Process Paperback. Presents an introduction to language, law and society for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students. This book focuses on the exploration of what sociolinguistic research can tell us about how language works and doesn't work in the legal process. Series: MM Textbooks. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CFB; LAQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 171 x 18. Weight in Grams: 554.

Sociolinguistics and the Legal Process is an introduction to language, law and society for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students. Its central focus is the exploration of what sociolinguistic research can tell us about how language works and doesn’t work in the legal process. Written for readers who may not have prior knowledge of sociolinguistics or the law, the book has an accessible style combined with discussion questions and exercises as well as topics for assignments, term papers, theses and dissertations. A wide range of legal contexts are investigated, including courtroom hearings, police interviews, lawyer interviews as well as small claims ... Read more

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Format

Paperback

Publication date

2010

Publisher

Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom

Number of pages

320

Condition

New

Series

MM Textbooks

Number of Pages

320

Place of Publication

Bristol, United Kingdom

ISBN

9781847692535

SKU

V9781847692535

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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days

Ref

99-15

About Diana Eades

Diana Eades (University of New England, Australia) has been actively involved in the legal process for more than twenty years, doing sociolinguistic research, providing expert evidence and delivering training for judges, magistrates and lawyers. She has taught at undergraduate and graduate levels at the University of Hawaiâi and several colleges and universities in Australia. At various times she has been ... Read more

Reviews for Sociolinguistics and the Legal Process

Not only does Diana Eades' textbook cross disciplinary and cultural borders, but also it bridges the gap between research and pedagogy. Bravo.
Bain Butler, University of Maryland, in Linguist List 21.3222
'Sociolinguistics and the Legal Process' is an ideal text for an introductory course in language and law. Eades’s intelligently chosen topics give a full and fair flavor ... Read moreof the field’s enormous range. The writing is perfect, crystal-clear without condescension or dumbing-down. Remarkably, Eades succeeds in presenting a theoretically sophisticated account of a sprawling field in a style that can be readily understood by an intelligent undergraduate.
John Conley, University of North Carolina School of Law, USA
This is a long-awaited book from one of the leading forensic linguists whose work has had a profound effect on several aspects of the Australian legal system. Diana Eades covers all aspects of interaction within the legal process from the first interview a suspect has with the police, through consultations with lawyers to the complexities of courtroom talk. There is also specific focus on the special problems of child witnesses and those who are not fluent in the language of the court. All readers will find new insights but for students 'Sociolinguistics and the Legal Process' will be invaluable.
Malcolm Coulthard, Professor of Forensic Linguistics, Aston University, UK.
Because of its textbook orientation, the book contains various exercises, class discussion sections, and assignments for further research interspersed throughout each chapter, all of which are thought-provoking and carefully integrated into the content of each chapter. This textbook is a worthwhile and informative introduction to the sociolinguistic dimension of the legal process.
Frank Nuessel, University of Louisville in Language Problems and Language Planning 35:1 2011
A highly informative book, Sociolinguistics and the Legal Process is a model textbook in so many ways.
Edward Finegan, University of Southern California, USA in The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law VOL .  319–324 Sociolinguistics and the legal process is an especially welcome contribution to the field of language and the law (a field also referred to as forensic linguistics), artfully situating the field within the broader framework of sociolinguistics. Diana Eades brings to this book a wealth of personal research experience in this field, together with an in-depth knowledge of its scholarly literature…Engagingly written, the book is intended to be primarily a textbook for upperdivision undergraduates and graduate students, but it is much more than that. Covering language and law from a multiplicity of theoretical and substantive vantage points, Eades succeeds in producing a textbook that not only explains the field in all of its many facets, but also is thorough and up-to-date in its review of the scholarly works on which it is built.
Susan Berk-Seligson, Vanderbilt University in Language in Society 41:1 (2012)
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