Entextualizing Domestic Violence: Language Ideology and Violence Against Women in the Anglo-American Hearsay Principle

by Jennifer Andrus

Book Overview

Language ideology is a concept developed in linguistic anthropology to explain the ways in which ideas about the definition and functions of language can become linked with social discourses and identities. In Entextualizing Domestic Violence, Jennifer Andrus demonstrates how language ideologies that are circulated in the Anglo-American law of evidence draw on and create indexical links to social discourses, affecting speakers whose utterances are...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190225831
• ISBN13: 9780190225834
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"