Courtroom talk and neocolonial control

Description:

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.

subjects: Aboriginal Australian Youth,  Cross-examination,  Discrimination in criminal justice administration,  Examination of witnesses,  Intercultural communicatio,  Language,  Legal status, laws,  Police misconduct,  Trials (Police misconduct),  Youth, Aboriginal Australian,  Intercultural communication,  Police, complaints against,  Police, australia,  Trials, australia

Places: Australia,  Brisbane (Qld.),  Pinkeba,  Pinkenba (Brisbane, Qld.),  Qld.) Pinkenba (Brisbane