Exploring Courtroom Discourse: The Language of Power and Control

by Anne Wagner and Le Cheng

This volume presents a combination of practical, empirical research data and theoretical reflection to provide a comparative view of language and discourse in the courtroom. The work explores how the various disciplines of law and linguistics can help us understand the nature of "Power and Control" - both oral and written - and how it might be clarified to unravel linguistic representation of legal reality. It presents and examines the most recent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1409423476
• ISBN13: 9781409423478
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 286 Pages