Courtroom Talk and Neocolonial Control

Courtroom Talk and Neocolonial ControlThe book uses critical sociolinguistic analysis to examine the social consequences of courtroom talk. The focus of the study is the cross examination of three Australian Aboriginal boys who were prosecution witnesses in the case of six police officers charged with their abduction. The analysis reveals how the language mechanisms allowed by courtroom rules of evidence serve to legitimize neocolonial control over Indigenous people. In the propositions

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