| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 389 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Language, power and social process ; 22
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Language, power, and social process ; 22.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-378) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Setting the theoretical scene -- The societal and institutional struggle -- Features of Aboriginal English communicative style -- Lexical strategies -- Linguistic mechanisms for identity construction -- Absolutely no regard whatsoever for law and order : David -- More court appearances than some solicitors : Albert -- Not a person to be overborne: Barry -- No fear of the police : closing the Pinkenba case -- Developments since the Pinkenba case -- The power of courtroom talk. |
| Summary |
The book uses critical sociolinguistic analysis to examine the social consequences of courtroom talk. The focus of the study is the cross-examination of three Australian Aboriginal boys who were prosecution witnesses in the case of six police officers charged with their abduction. The analysis reveals how the language mechanisms allowed by courtroom rules of evidence serve to legitimize neocolonial control over Indigenous people. In the propositions and assertions made in cross-examination, and their adoption by judicial decision-makers, the three boys were constructed not as victims of police. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Trials (Police misconduct) -- Australia -- Brisbane (Qld.)
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Trials (Police misconduct) |
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Australia. |
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Police misconduct -- Australia -- Brisbane (Qld.)
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Police misconduct. |
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Examination of witnesses -- Australia -- Language.
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Examination of witnesses. |
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Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Australia.
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Discrimination in criminal justice administration. |
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Intercultural communication -- Australia.
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Intercultural communication. |
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Cross-examination -- Australia.
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Cross-examination. |
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Youth, Aboriginal Australian -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Youth, Aboriginal Australian. |
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Pinkenba (Brisbane, Qld.)
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Eades, Diana, 1953- Courtroom talk and neocolonial control. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2008 (DLC) 2008023748 |
| ISBN |
9783110208320 (electronic book) |
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3110208326 (electronic book) |
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3110204827 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9783110204827 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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3110204835 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9783110204834 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9783110204827 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9783110204834 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
