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Publication details [#56551]

Andrus, Jennifer. 2012. Language ideology, fractal recursivity, and discursive agency in the legal construction of linguistic evidence. Language in Society 41 (4) : 589–614.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

agency | evidential | ideology | language use | legalese

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper explores the language ideology diffused in Section 8 of the US Federal Rules of Evidence (FRE), stressing the concerns to discursive agency when this language ideology is employed for assigning an utterance for evidential use.