Publications

Publication details [#45811]

Hobbs, Pamela. 2007. Extraterritoriality and extralegality: The United States Supreme Court and Guantánamo Bay. Text & Talk 27 (2) : 171–200.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

argumentation | courtroom | discourse structure | intertextuality | legalese

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/TEXT/html

Annotation

This study of the United States Supreme Court's intertextual text construction processes proposes an analysis of the Rasul v. Bush case, in which foreigners, detained as 'enemy combatants' at the United States Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, questioned the legality of their detention.