Entextualizing Domestic Violence - Language Ideology and Violence Against Women in the Anglo-American Hearsay Principle - Hardback - 2015

This book explores how language ideologies circulated in the hearsay rule of the AngloAmerican law of evidence create the potential to speak for and/or ignore the speech of victims of domestic violence, using discourse analysis to identify the particular mechanisms in case law and statute that do this work.
Year of publication: 2015
Pagination: 232 pages, illustrations
Format: Hardback
Serie: Oxford Studies in Language and Law