Title: Language in the judicial process /
Authors: Levi, Judith N.; Walker, Anne Graffam.
Publisher: Plenum Press,
Year: 1990
Subjects: Law Language
Contents: Introduction -- The study of language in the judicial process / Judith N. Levi -- Analyzing language in legal settings -- Strategies in the contest between lawyer and witness in cross-examination / Paul Drew -- Narratives and narrative structure in plea bargaining / Douglas W. Maynard --Litigant satisfaction versus legal adequacy in small claims court narratives / William M. O'Barr and John M. Conley -- Legal realism in lawyer-client communication / Austin Sarat and William L.F. Felstiner -- Transforming language in legal proceedings -- Bilingual court proceedings: the role of court interpreter / Susan Berk-Seligson -- Language at work in the law: the customs, conventions, and appellate consequences of court reporting / Anne Graffam Walker -- Construing language for legal purposes -- Linguistic analysis of conversation as evidence regarding the interpretation of speech events / Georgia M. Green -- On the use of social conversation as evidence in a court of law / Ellen F. Prince -- Language and cognition in products liability / Michael G. Johnson -- Adequacy of cigarette package warnings: an analysis of adequacy of federally mandated cigarette package warnings / Bethany K. Dumas -- Epilogue: where do we go from here? / Anne Graffam Walker.