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  • Just Words

    Law, Language, and Power

    Series series Chicago Series in Law and Society
    Is it "just words" when a lawyer cross-examines a rape victim in the hopes of getting her to admit an interest in her attacker? Is it "just words" when the Supreme Court hands down a decision or when business people draw up a contract? In tackling the question of how an abstract entity exerts concrete power, Just Words focuses on what has become the central issue in law and language research: what ... Read more

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  • The Great Isolation

    For a moment, the world stood still……but our people were forced to stand alone.And in the midst of this darkness, one Colorado group decided to use art to heal broken hearts.As mandatory stay-at-home orders continued, it became clear that the Coronavirus pandemic would not surrender anytime soon. Feelings of trepidation and sadness spread like wildfire, and our people grew weary and afraid.That's ... Read more

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  • A New Companion to Linguistic Anthropology

    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
    Provides an expansive view of the full field of linguistic anthropology, featuring an all-new team of contributing authors representing diverse new perspectivesA New Companion to Linguistic Anthropology provides a timely and authoritative overview of the field of study that explores how language influences society and culture. Bringing together more than 30 original essays by an interdisciplinary ... Read more

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  • Confronting the Death Penalty

    How Language Influences Jurors in Capital Cases

    by Robin Conley ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Language and Law
    Confronting the Death Penalty: How Language Influences Jurors in Capital Cases probes how jurors make the ultimate decision about whether another human being should live or die. Drawing on ethnographic and qualitative linguistic methods, this book explores the means through which language helps to make death penalty decisions possible - how specific linguistic choices mediate and restrict jurors', ... Read more

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  • Language and Social Justice in Practice

    From bilingual education and racial epithets to gendered pronouns and immigration discourses, language is a central concern in contemporary conversations and controversies surrounding social inequality. Developed as a collaborative effort by members of the American Anthropological Association’s Language and Social Justice Task Force, this innovative volume synthesizes scholarly insights on the ... Read more

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    Narrative, Conversation and Discourse Strategies

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    Accessible yet theoretically rich, this landmark text introduces key concepts and issues in critical discourse analysis and situates these within the field of educational research. The book invites readers to consider the theories and methods of three major traditions in critical discourse studies – discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, and multimodal discourse analysis -- through the ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Injustice

    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
    In the era of information and communication, issues of misinformation and miscommunication are more pressing than ever. Epistemic injustice - one of the most important and ground-breaking subjects to have emerged in philosophy in recent years - refers to those forms of unfair treatment that relate to issues of knowledge, understanding, and participation in communicative practices.The Routledge ... Read more

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    Social Problems and Social Issues

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    Series series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and
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    Deaf Studies Talking

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