Courtroom talk and neocolonial control / by Diana Eades
- Bib ID:
- 4496547
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Eades, Diana, 1953-
- Description:
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- Berlin ; New York, NY : Mouton de Gruyter, c2008
- xviii, 389 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9783110204827
- Series:
- Language, power and social process ; 22.
- Summary:
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The book examines the social consequences of courtroom talk through detailed investigation of the cross-examination of three Australian Aboriginal boys in the case against six police officers charged with their abduction. Critical sociolinguistic analysis shows how courtroom talk, with its related assumptions about how language works, can serve to legitimize neocolonial control over Indigenous people.
- Full contents:
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- Part I: Aboriginal participation in the criminal justice System
- Part II: Evidence given in unequivocal terms?
- Part III: Constructing the identities of the witnesses
- Part IV: Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-378) and index.
- Subject:
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- Trials (Police misconduct) -- Queensland -- Brisbane
- Police misconduct -- Queensland -- Pinkeba (Brisbane)
- Examination of witnesses -- Australia -- Language
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Australia
- Intercultural communication -- Australia
- Cross-examination -- Australia
- Youth, Aboriginal Australian -- Legal status, laws, etc
- Law - Legal system - Courts
- Race relations - Power relations
- Language - Sociolinguistics
- Law enforcement - Offences - Abduction and false imprisonment
- Language - Linguistics - Discourse analysis
- Law - Legal theory and criticism
- Language - Linguistics - Theory and criticism
- Social identity - Aboriginality
- Law enforcement - Criminal law and procedure - Juvenile justice
- Law - Legal system - Courts - Witnesses
- Law enforcement - Police-youth relations
- Pinkenba (Brisbane, Qld.)
- Pinkenba (SE Qld SG56-15)
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