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Publication details [#14955]

Eades, Diana. 2000. I don't think it's an answer to the question: Silencing Aboriginal witnesses in court. Language in Society 29 (2) : 161–195.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

courtroom conversation | discourse analysis | interactional sociolinguistics | intercultural communication | power

Language as a subject

English, Aboriginal

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study documents the means and reasons of Australian Aboriginal witness silencing in a New South Wales country courthouse. It shows how the Aboriginal's lack of social power is reproduced and manipulated in the legal system.