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Publication details [#22891]
O'Barr, William and John M. Conley. 1988. Ideological dissonance in the American legal system. Anthropological Linguistics 30 (3-4) : 345–368.
Annotation
The authors present the results of a study of lay ideologies of law in the United States as revealed in the narratives of small claims litigants, and of how these differ from the ideology of law as officially practiced.