\ edited by Baudouin Dupret, Michael Lynch, and Tim Berard.
; New York
: Oxford University Press
, [2015]
xi, 303 p.
Oxford studies in language and law
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Law at work ; Baudouin Dupret, Michael Lynch, and Tim Berard -- The practical grammar of law and its relation to time / Baudouin Dupret and Jean-No�el Ferrie -- Aspiring magistrates : entry exams and general traineeship at the Court of Lecce / Luisa Zappulli and Karen Latricia Hough -- Practical solutions : praxiologial analysis of judgments in civil hearings / Pedtro Heitor Barros Geraldo -- Hearing clients' talk as lawyers' work : the case of public legal consultation conference / Shiro Kashimura -- Producing records of testimony : some competent legal methods for incompetent trials / Kenneth Liberman -- Reporting talk when testifying : intertextuality, consistency, and transformation in witnesses use of direct reported speech / Renata Galatolo -- Turning a witness : the textual and interactional production of a statement in adversarial testimony / Michael Lynch -- Is there someone in my videoconference room? managing remote witnesses in distributed courtrooms / Christian Licoppe and Laurence Dumoulin -- Hate crimes, labels, and accounts : pragmatic reflections on U.S. hate crimes / Tim Berard -- Descriptions of deviance : making the case for professional help / Stephen Hester and Sally Hester -- Discursive cartographies, moral practices : international law and the Gaza War / Lenal Jayyusi.