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Law and the Language of Identity: Discourse in the William Kennedy Smith Rape Trial

Law and the Language of Identity: Discourse in the William Kennedy Smith Rape Trial

Matoesian, Gregory M.

Paperback

LinguisticsGeneral LawGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0195123301
ISBN13: 9780195123302
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Sep 6 2001
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In this volume, Gregory Matoesian uses the notorious 1991 rape trial of William Kennedy Smith to provide an in-depth analysis of language use and its role in that specific trial as well as in the law in general. He draws on the fields of conversation analysis, ethnomethodology, linguistic anthropology and social theory to show how language practices shape--and are shaped by--culture and the law, particularly in the social construction of rape as a legal fact. This analysis examines linguistic strategies from both defense and prosecutorial viewpoints, and how they relate to issues of gender, sexual identity, and power.

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