Description
Experts in linguistics and law use diverse theoretical and analytical approaches to demonstrate the complex ways in which language is used to seek, steer, give, or withhold consent in a range of legal contexts. The book illuminates problematic issues in legal practices and procedures that may otherwise be uncritically accepted. Susan Ehrlich is Professor of Linguistics at York University in Toronto.; Diana Eades is Adjunct Professor at University of New England.; Janet Ainsworth is the John D. Eshelman Professor of Law at Seattle University and Research Professor in the Research Center for Legal Translation at China University of Political Science and Law. Chapter 1; Introduction: Linguistic and Discursive Dimensions of Consent; Susan Ehrlich and Diana Eades; Section 1: Free and voluntary consent; Chapter 2; Culture, cursing, and coercion: The impact of police officer swearing on the voluntariness of consent to search in police-citizen interactions; Janet Ainsworth; Chapter 3; Post-penetration rape: Coercion or freely-given consent?; Susan Ehrlich; Chapter 4; Erasing context in the courtroom construal of consent; Diana Eades; Section 2: Informed consent vs. ritualized consent; Chapter 5; Talking the ethical turn: Drawing on tick-box consent in policing; Frances Rock; Chapter 6; Transparent and opaque consent in contract formation; Lawrence Solan; Chapter 7; The empty performative?: Informed consent to genetic research; John Conley, R. Jean Cadigan and Arlene Davis; Section 3: The influence of discursive practices; Chapter 8; Promoting litigant consent to arbitration in multilingual small claims court; Philipp Sebastian Angermeyer; Chapter 9; Consent and compliance in youth justice conferences?; Michele Zappavigna, Paul Dwyer and J. R. Martin; Chapter 10; Non-consent and discursive resistance: Radical reformulation in a post-sting police interview; Philip Gaines; Section 4: The coercive force of cautions; Chapter 11; Totality of circumstances and translating the Miranda warnings; Susan Berk-Seligson; Chapter 12; Negotiating the right to remain silent in inquisitorial trials; Fleur van der Houwen and Guusje Jol; Chapter 13; ‘No comment’ responses to questions in police investigative interviews; Elizabeth Stokoe, Derek Edwards and Helen Edwards
