Just Words

Conley, John M. and William M. O'Barr Just Words, Second Edition: Law, Language, and Power. 184 p., 1 line drawing. 6 x 9 1997, 2005 Series: (CSLS) Chicago Series in Law and Society

Paper $16.00sp ISBN: 978-0-226-11488-0 (ISBN-10: 0-226-11488-0) Spring 2005

Is it "just words" when a lawyer cross-examines a rape victim in the hopes of getting her to admit an interest in her attacker? Is it "just words" when the Supreme Court hands down a decision or when business people draw up a contract? In tackling the question of how an abstract entity exerts concrete power, Just Words focuses on what has become the central issue in law and language research: what language reveals about the nature of legal power.

Conley and O'Barr show how the microdynamics of the legal process and the largest questions of justice can be fruitfully explored through the field of linguistics. Each chapter covers a language-based approach to a different area of the law, from the cross-examinations of victims and witnesses to the inequities of divorce mediation. Combining analysis of common legal events with a broad range of scholarship on language and law, Just Words seeks the reality of power in the everyday practice and application of the law. As the only study of its type, the book is the definitive treatment of the topic that will be welcomed by students and specialists alike.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface
Acknowledgments
Note on Transcript Conventions
1: The Politics of Law and the Science of Talk
2: The Revictimization of Rape Victims
3: The Language of Mediation
4: Speaking of Patriarchy
5: A Natural History of Disputing
6: The Discourses of Law In Cross-Cultural Perspective
7: The Discourses of Law in Historical Perspective
8: Conclusion
Notes
References
Index

Subjects:

• ANTHROPOLOGY: Cultural and Social Anthropology
• LAW AND LEGAL STUDIES: International Law

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Pin-drop effect 翻譯成"吊尾效果 "不清楚中文含義

"在律師問另一個問題之前的沉默可被律師用作對此前話語的可信性做出的另一種暗含的評論--幾個調查者所謂的吊尾效果(pin-drop effect ) ...

這其實很簡單 此效應即大家凝神靜聽 注意力特別集中 容易引導聽眾"You could have heard a pin drop,"

Nobody moves, nobody talks and you can hear a pin drop. It’s a desired effect .