Just Words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Just Words write by John M. Conley. This book was released on 2019-05-10. Just Words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. John M. Conley, William M. O'Barr, and Robin Conley Riner 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 and will be welcomed by students and specialists alike. This third edition brings this essential text up to date with new chapters on nonverbal, or “multimodal,” communication in legal settings and law, language, and race.
Just Words
Just Words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Just Words write by Alan Ackerman. This book was released on 2011-06-28. Just Words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In an appearance on "The Dick Cavett Show" in 1980, the critic Mary McCarthy glibly remarked that every word author Lillian Hellman wrote was a lie, "including 'and' and 'the.'" Hellman immediately filed a libel suit, charging that McCarthy's comment was not a legitimate conversation on public issues but an attack on her reputation. This intriguing book offers a many-faceted examination of Hellman's infamous suit and explores what it tells us about tensions between privacy and self-expression, freedom and restraint in public language, and what can and cannot be said in public in America.
Just Words
Just Words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Just Words write by Trevor J. Walker. This book was released on 2011-06-14. Just Words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Just Words" by Trevor J. Walker
Just Words
Just Words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Just Words write by Mary Kate McGowan. This book was released on 2019-01-24. Just Words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We all know that speech can be harmful. But what are the harms and how exactly does the speech in question brings those harms about? Mary Kate McGowan identifies a previously overlooked mechanism by which speech constitutes, rather than merely causes, harm. She argues that speech constitutes harm when it enacts a norm that prescribes that harm. McGowan illustrates this theory by considering many categories of speech including sexist remarks, racist hate speech, pornography, verbal triggers for stereotype threat, micro-aggressions, political dog whistles, slam poetry, and even the hanging of posters. Just Words explores a variety of harms - such as oppression, subordination, discrimination, domination, harassment, and marginalization - and ways in which these harms can be remedied.
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Just Words? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Just Words? write by Bernadette M. Brennan. This book was released on 2008. Just Words? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Over the past decade Australians have witnessed a significant shift to more insular and conservative economic, ethical and cultural norms. The problems of valuing and achieving justice seem more acute than ever, yet the solutions to those problems are not obvious nor are those in power taking the lead." "In this powerful collection, Australian writers including Gail Jones, Eva Sallis and Frank Brennan explore the relationship between writing and justice, a relationship utterly dependent on informed, ethical readers. These essays - from poets, essayists, academics, playwrights, critics and novelists - demonstrate how it is possible for writing to articulate concerns of justice, enlighten the broader community and move citizens to action."--BOOK JACKET.
