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Language and the Law Study Notes
LING244 - Language and the Law
48 Pages • Complete Study Notes • Year: Pre-2021
These notes explore how language and linguistics are relevant to law and the workings of the legal system. It examines the nature of legal language, and how it is used and interpreted within the legal process, particularly in court and police interviews. It includes cases of sociolinguistic disadvantage before the law; forensic applications of linguistics in speaker and author identification; and translating and interpreting in legal contexts, including trials, interviews and native title hearings.
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