Language in the Judicial ProcessJudith N. Levi, Anne Graffam Walker Springer Science & Business Media, 1990 M10 31 - 373 páginas Legal realism is a powerful jurisprudential tradition which urges attention to sodal conditions and predicts their influence in the legal process. The rela tively recent "sodal sdence in the law" phenomenon, in which sodal research is increasingly relied on to dedde court cases is a direct result of realistic jurisprudence, which accords much significance in law to empirical reports about sodal behavior. The empirical research used by courts has not, how ever, commonly dealt with language as an influential variable. This volume of essays, coedited by Judith N. Levi and Anne Graffam Walker, will likely change that situation. Language in the Judicial Process is a superb collection of original work which fits weIl into the realist tradition, and by focusing on language as a key variable, it establishes a new and provocative perspective on the legal process. The perspective it offers, and the data it presents, make this volume a valuable source of information both for judges and lawyers, who may be chiefly concemed with practice, and for legal scholars and sodal sdentists who do basic research about law. |
Contenido
The Study of Language in the Judicial Process | 3 |
Language and Eyewitness Testimony | 13 |
Comprehensibility of Jury Instructions | 20 |
Conclusion | 27 |
Strategies in the Contest between Lawyer and Witness | 39 |
Contrast Devices | 46 |
Conclusion | 62 |
The Use of Narrative Components | 78 |
Conclusion | 198 |
References | 200 |
Obstacles | 214 |
Means and Devices | 221 |
Effects of Variable Reporter Choices | 232 |
References | 242 |
Linguistic Analysis of Conversation | 248 |
A Case Study | 259 |
Theoretical Implications | 88 |
Litigant Satisfaction versus Legal Adequacy in Small | 97 |
Methods | 107 |
The Legal Adequacy of Unaided Witness Narratives | 116 |
Some Ethnographic Conclusions about Accounts in Small | 127 |
References | 129 |
Modes of Discourse about Law | 135 |
Conclusion | 148 |
The Role of the Court | 155 |
How Attention Is Shifted to the Interpreter by Court | 162 |
The Interpreters Own AttentionDrawing Behavior | 172 |
Controlling the Flow of Testimony | 190 |
Legal Issues | 261 |
References | 275 |
Conclusion | 289 |
Language Comprehension in Products Liability Cases | 300 |
The Relevance of Psycholinguistic Data in Products Liability | 303 |
An Analysis | 309 |
Categorization Rank Ordering and Translation | 324 |
Rapid Anonymous Interviews | 341 |
Recommendations | 348 |
Where Do We Go from Here? | 353 |
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