Legal-lay communication : textual travels in the law
Rock, Frances,1974-Contributor
Heffer, ChrisContributor
Conley, John M.Contributor
'Legal-Lay Communication' combines a range of perspectives on a key theme in language and law with a specific theoretical focus on how texts 'travel' through the legal process. The chapters in the book explore aspects of legal-lay communication, or those nodes of interaction where the legal world meets the everyday lifeworld. This may involve instances when people acting for the legal system, from police call-handlers to judges, interact with people encountering the legal process in a lay role, for example, as witnesses and suspects, though this transparent reading of 'legal' and 'lay' is challenged in the book.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'Legal-Lay Communication' combines a range of perspectives on a key theme in language and law with a specific theoretical focus on how texts 'travel' through the legal process. The chapters in the book explore aspects of legal-lay communication, or those nodes of interaction where the legal world meets the everyday lifeworld. This may involve instances when people acting for the legal system, from police call-handlers to judges, interact with people encountering the legal process in a lay role, for example, as witnesses and suspects, though this transparent reading of 'legal' and 'lay' is challenged in the book.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 24, 2013).
Communication in law
Law
Communication in law enforcement
Sociological jurisprudence
Law
Law, Politics & Government
Law, General & Comparative