Table of Contents

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Introduction
1: Overview of the William Kennedy Smith Rape Trial
PART I: REPETITION IN THE PATRIARCHAL ORDER
2: Rhythms of Domination and the Gender of Inconsistency
3: Poetics of Space, Direction, and Movement
PART II: INTERTEXTUALITY
4: Intertextuality, Reported Speech, and Affect
5: Production Media and Intertextual Authority in Reported Speech
PART III: THE CONSTRUCTION AND DECONSTRUCTION OF EXPERT IDENTITY
6: The Grammaticalization of Participant Roles in the Constitution of Expert Identity
7: Constructing Age Identity in Expert Testimony
PART IV: LANGUAGE AND LEGAL CHANGE
8: The Microdynamics of Legal Change
Notes
References
Index

Reviews

"This work is at the cutting edge of contemporary sociolinguistic theory. Law and the Language of Identity reflects a very high level of scholarship. The technical linguistic analysis is particularly brilliant."--Susan Hirsch, Author of Pronouncing and Persevering and Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies at Wesleyan University