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Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Andrus is an assistant professor of Writing and Rhetoric Studies at the University of Utah, where she teaches courses on rhetorical theory, discourse analysis, and legal rhetoric. Her current research is on domestic violence and the Anglo-American law of evidence, and the ways in which metadiscourses and text production constrain discursive agency. She has publications in Technical Communication Quarterly, Discourse and Society, Language in Society, and College Composition and Communication. Klappentext This book explores how language ideologies circulated in the hearsay rule of the Anglo-American law of evidence create the potential to speak for and/or ignore the speech of victims of domestic violence, using discourse analysis to identify the particular mechanisms in case law and statute that do this work. Zusammenfassung This book explores how language ideologies circulated in the hearsay rule of the Anglo-American law of evidence create the potential to speak for and/or ignore the speech of victims of domestic violence, using discourse analysis to identify the particular mechanisms in case law and statute that do this work. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Note on trial citation format Introduction: Language Ideology in the Hearsay Doctrine and the Modern Excited Utterance Exception to Hearsay Chapter 1: Legal Discourse of Domestic Violence: Language Ideology and Trustworthiness Part I: Anglo-American Law and the In/admissibility of Hearsay Chapter 2: Legal Empiricism in/and the Language Ideology of Hearsay Chapter 3: Social Discourses about Domestic Violence and Hearsay: Interdiscursivity and Indexicality in the US Supreme Court Part II: The Excited Utterance Exception in US v. Hadley Chapter 4: Making the Excited Utterance Legally Intelligible: Shifting Audiences, Contexts, and Speakers Chapter 5: The Attribution and Disattribution of Discursive Agency in the Excited Utterance Exception to Hearsay Chapter 6: Conclusions: Language Ideology and the Legal Accounting for Domestic Violence ...
