Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction
1. Textual Travel in Legal- Lay Communication
Frances Rock, Chris Heffer, and John Conley
PART ONE: Police Investigation as Textual Mediation
2. The Transformation of Discourse in Emergency Calls to the Police
Mark Garner and Edward Johnson
3. From Legislation to the Courts: Providing Safe Passage for Legal Texts through the Challenges of a Police Interview
Georgina Heydon
4. Every Link in the Chain: The Police Interview as Textual Intersection
Frances Rock
PART TWO: The Legal Case as Intertextual Construction
S. ‘Theatricks in the Courtroom: The Intertextual Construction of Legal Cases
Katrijn Maryns
6. Travels of a suspects Statement
Martha Komter
7. Embedding Police Interviews in the Prosecution Case in the Shipman Trial
Alison Johnson
8. Tracing Crime Narratives in the Palmer Trial (1856): From the Lawyerspening Speeches to the Judges Summing Up
Dawn Archer
PART THREE: Judicial Discourse as Legal Recontextualization
9. Post-penetration Rape and the Decontextualization of Witness Testimony
Susan Ehrlich
10. Communication and Magic: Authorized Voice, legal-linguistic Habitus, and the Recontextualization of “Beyond Reasonable Doubt”
Chris Heffer
11. Troubling the legal-lay Distinction: Litigant Briefs, Oral Argument, and a Public Hearing about Same-Sex Marriage
Karen Tracy and Erica L. Delgadillo
PART FOUR: Crossing Cultural and Ideological Categories in lay-legal Communication
12. The Discourse of DNA: Giving Informed Consent to Genetic Research
John M. Conley, R. Jean Cadigan, Arlene M. Davis, Allison W. Dobson, Erin Edwards, Wendell Fortson, and Robert Mitchell
13. Travelling Texts: The legal-lay Interface in The Highway Code
Bethan L. Davies
14. Recalling Rape: Moving Beyond What We Know
Shonna Trinch
Index