Preface to the Third Edition Preface to the Second Edition Preface Note on Transcript Conventions 1. The Politics of Law and the Science of Talk Why We Wrote This Book Basic Concepts: Language, Discourse, and Power The Origins of Law and Language Research Sociolinguistics Law and Society Shortcomings of the Fields in Isolation Conclusion: Combining Concerns 2. The Revictimization of Rape Victims Rape and Power Principles of Conversation Analysis The Conversation Analysis of Rape Trials Silence Question Form Topic Management Commentary The Witness''s Capacity for Knowledge Is It Really about Rape? The Sexual Double Bind Sexual History Conclusion: Rape and the Power of Discourse 3. The Language of Mediation What a Mediation Session Is Like Restoring Civility The Structure of Mediation The Moral Order of Mediation Summary The Macrodiscourse of Mediation The Microdiscourse of Mediation Conclusion: Is Mediator Bias Systematic? 4. Speaking of Patriarchy Gender and Equality Stylistic Variation in Courtroom Talk Powerlessness and Patriarchy The Logic of Legal Accounts The Rule-Oriented Account The Relational Account Conclusion: An Alternative Vision of Justice 5. A Natural History of Disputing Naming, Blaming, and Claiming A Language-Based Model of Naming and Blaming The Claiming Process What Happens When Disputes Reach the Legal System? Transformation in the Small Claims Court Transformation in the Lawyer''s Office Reflections on Transformations Conclusion: Toward a Natural History of Disputing 6. The Discourses of Law in Cross-Cultural Perspective Questioning Huli Women Goldman on Accident Verb Forms and Accidents Ergativity Repairing Relationships in Weyewa Conclusion: Has Legal Anthropology Missed the Point? 7. Language Ideology and the Law Defining Terms The Importance of Studying Language Ideology The Power of Language Ideology in Legal Contexts Language Ideologies in American Courts Language Ideologies in Kenyan Divorce Courts Conclusion 8.
Forensic Linguistics The Law of Expert Witnesses Defining Forensic Linguistics Tracking the Footprints of Linguistics in the Law Elizabeth Loftus and Eyewitness Testimony Roger Shuy''s Linguistic Battles Forensic Linguistics and Power Going Forward: A Linguistically Driven Forensic Linguistics 9. Multimodal Communication in the Courtroom Defining Multimodality Multimodal Aspects of Legal Interaction Charles Goodwin: Ways of Seeing in the Rodney King Trial Gregory Matoesian: Reproducing Rape through Multimodal Interaction Robin Conley Riner: Multimodality and Capital Jury Decision-Making Law, Language, and Multimodality 10. Language and Race in the Courtroom The Relationship between Race and Language AAVE in the Zimmerman Trial: The Prosecution''s Case (Rickford and King 2016) AAVE in the Zimmerman Trial: The Defense''s Cross-Examination (Slobe 2016) Pauses and Silence Deixis Linguistic Profiling Conclusion: Can Anything Be Done? 11. Conclusion Where Does Legal Language Come From? Learning How to Argue How Do Lawyers Learn Legal Discourse? Comparative Legal Discourse Deconstructing Law Reform Sociolinguists in the Legal World Law and Society, Law and Language Notes References Index.