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  • Representing Rape

    Language and sexual consent

    by Susan Ehrlich ...
    Representing Rape is the first feminist analysis of the language of sexual assault trials from the perspective of linguists. Susan Ehrlich argues that language is central to all legal settings - specifically sexual harassment and acquaintance rape hearings where linguistic descriptions of the events are often the only type of evidence available. Language does not simply reflect but helps to ... Read more

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  • Why Do You Ask?

    The Function of Questions in Institutional Discourse

    Edited by Alice Freed, Susan Ehrlich ...
    The act of questioning is the primary speech interaction between an institutional speaker and someone outside the institution. These roles dictate their language practices. "Why Do You Ask?" is the first collected volume to focus solely on the question/answer process, drawing on a range of methodological approaches like Conversational Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Discursive Psychology, and ... Read more

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  • Why Do You Ask?

    The Function of Questions in Institutional Discourse

    Edited by Alice Freed, Susan Ehrlich ...
    The act of questioning is the primary speech interaction between an institutional speaker and someone outside the institution. These roles dictate their language practices. "Why Do You Ask?" is the first collected volume to focus solely on the question/answer process, drawing on a range of methodological approaches like Conversational Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Discursive Psychology, and ... Read more

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  • Discourse Analysis and Applications

    Studies in Adult Clinical Populations

    Application of analytic discourse techniques to clinical practice is relatively recent. This book's contributors begin with the notion that systematic examination of discourse provides a rich source of data for describing the complex relationships among language, social context, and the cognitive processes that underlie discourse comprehension and production. Evidence is provided that when ... Read more

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  • Discursive Constructions of Consent in the Legal Process

    Series series Oxford Studies in Language and Law
    As a linguistically-grounded, critical examination of consent, this volume views consent not as an individual mental state or act but as a process that is interactionally-and discursively-situated. It highlights the ways in which legal consent is often fictional (at best) due to the impoverished view of meaning and the linguistic ideologies that typically inform interpretations and representations ... Read more

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  • Approaches to Discourse Analysis

    Series series Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics series
    A groundbreaking collection by leading scholars that spans a broad range of social situations, cultural contexts, and analytic perspectivesThe contemporary landscape of discourse analysis—which examines spoken, written, and multimodal communication—is so diverse that, as volume contributor Deborah Tannen observes, “discourse” has become almost synonymous with “language” and, for many scholars, ... Read more

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  • Doing Justice, Doing Gender

    Women in Legal and Criminal Justice Occupations

    Series series Women in the Criminal Justice System
    *"Martin and Jurik provide a clear body of evidence illuminating the gendered nature of criminal justice occupations. Of the multitude of feminist works on this topic, this is one of the best analyses available."**—*****CRIMINAL JUSTICE REVIEWDoing Justice, Doing Gender: Women in Legal and Criminal Justice Occupations** is a highly readable, sociologically grounded analysis of women working in ... Read more

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  • The Profession and Practice of Adult Education

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    Series series Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics
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