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Publication details [#26932]

Bavelas, Janet Beavin, Linda Coates and James Gibson. 1994. Anomalous language in sexual assault trial judgments. Discourse & Society 5 (2) : 189–206.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

courtroom conversation | discourse analysis | judgment | language deficiency | rape

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This analysis of Western Canadian trial judgments' language in sexual assault cases shows that this vocabulary creates a false dichotomy between stranger rape and (acquaintance) consensual sex.