Courtroom talk and neocolonial control
By: by Diana Eades.
Series: Language, power and social process -- 22
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9783110204827; 9783110204834
Subjects: Trials (Police misconduct) -- Australia -- Brisbane (Qld.); Police misconduct -- Australia -- Pinkeba; Examination of witnesses -- Australia -- Language; Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Australia; Intercultural communicatio -- Australia; Cross-examination -- Australia; Youth, Aboriginal Australian -- Legal status, laws, etc; Pinkenba (Brisbane, Qld.)
Description: The book examines the social consequences of courtroom talk through detailed investigation of the cross-examination of three Australian Aboriginal boys in the case against six police officers charged with their abduction. Critical sociolinguistic analysis shows how courtroom talk, with its related assumptions about how language works, can serve to legitimize neocolonial control over Indigenous people.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Setting the theoretical scene; title: The societal and institutional struggle; title: Features of Aboriginal English communicative style; title: Lexical strategies; title: Linguistic mechanisms for identity construction; title: Absolutely no regard whatsoever for law and order : David; title: More court appearances than some solicitors : Albert; title: Not a person to be overborne: Barry; title: No fear of the police : closing the Pinkenba case; title: Developments since the Pinkenba case; title: The power of courtroom talk.