Courtroom Talk and Neocolonial Control

Author/Contributor(s):	Eades, Diana
Publisher:	Walter de Gruyter
Date:	07/15/2008
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

The book examines the social consequences of courtroom talk through detailed investigation of the cross-examination of three Australian Aboriginal boys in the case against six police officers charged with their abduction. Critical sociolinguistic analysis shows how courtroom talk, with its related assumptions about how language works, can serve to legitimize neocolonial control over Indigenous people.