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Publication details [#13320]

Butters, Ronald. 2000. 'What Is About to Take Place Is a Murder': Construing the Racist Subtext in a Small-Town Virginia Courtroom. In Peyton, Joy Kreeft, Peg Griffin, Walt Wolfram and Ralph W. Fasold. Language in Action. New Studies of Language in Society. Essays in Honor of Roger W. Shuy. Hampton Press. pp. 362–388.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English

Annotation

This paper documents how social prejudices and taboos operate in courtroom conversations.