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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806919103321

Autore

Matoesian Gregory M.

Titolo

Law and the language of identity : discourse in the William Kennedy Smith rape trial / / Gregory M. Matoesian [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-772195-8

1-280-53009-X

0-19-535261-0

1-4294-0165-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

306.4408834

340.014

Soggetti

Trials (Rape) - Florida - Palm Beach

Rape - Psychological aspects

Conduct of court proceedings - United States

Semantics (Law)

English language - Discourse analysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Notes on Transcription; Introduction; 1 Overview of the William Kennedy Smith Rape Trial; I: REPETITION IN THE PATRIARCHAL ORDER; 2 Rhythms of Domination and the Gender of Inconsistency; 3 Poetics of Space, Direction, and Movement; II: INTERTEXTUALITY; 4 Intertextuality, Reported Speech, and Affect; 5 Production Media and Intertextual Authority in Reported Speech; III: THE CONSTRUCTION AND DECONSTRUCTION OF EXPERT IDENTITY; 6 The Grammaticalization of Participant Roles in the Constitution of Expert Identity; 7 Constructing Age Identity in Expert Testimony

IV: LANGUAGE AND LEGAL CHANGE8 The Microdynamics of Legal Change; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W



Sommario/riassunto

Matoesian uses the notorious 1991 rape trial of William Kennedy Smith to provide an indepth analysis of language use and its role in that trial and the law more generally.