Publications

Publication details [#57804]

Matoesian, Gregory M. 2013. Language and material conduct in legal discourse. Journal of Sociolinguistics 17 (5) : 634–660.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

courtroom | forensic linguistics | legal text | legalese | sociolinguistics

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/josl

Annotation

This paper on forensic linguistics shows how the integration of language and material conduct (like objects, audio-recordings and transcripts) appear in the production of legal reality (of a criminal trial in this example).