absolution and the other night, someone next to me at the opera told me about how she once was on a plane next to edward frickin' said, and how she

Listens: hit him accidentally over the head with her carryon luggage (this, before she knew it was said). ha.

i'm just getting ready to begin putting it all together, and livejournal is strangely satisfying as a conduit/go-between for home and oncampus drafting, along with my keychain drive.

...plus, i think that i love forensic linguistics, well at least the small taste i've gotten this semester, so i don't see any reason to keep what's on my mind from whoever wanders by.


Bessmer, Sue. (1976). The Laws of Rape. New York: Praeger.

Conley, John M. and William M. O'Barr. (1998). Just Words: Law, Language, and Power. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
*specifically 15-37, 60-74, 119-120.

Conley, John M., William M. O'Barr, and E. Allan Lind. (1978). The Power of Language: Presentational Style in the Courtroom. Duke Law Journal 78, 1375-??.

Cunningham, Clark D. (1992). The Lawyer as Translator, Representation as Text: Towards an Ethnography of Legal Discourse. Cornell Law Review 77, 1298-??

Danet, Brenda. (1980). "Baby" or "Fetus"? Language and the Construction of Reality in a Manslaughter Trial. Semiotica 32, 187-219.

Ehrlich, Susan. (2001). Representing Rape: Language and Sexual Consent. London: Routledge.

Fisher, George. (1997, December). The Jury's Rise as Lie Detector. The Yale Law Journal 107:3, 575-713.

Friedman, Richard D. (1995). Prior Statements of a Witness: A Nettlesome Corner of the Hearysay Thicket. The Supreme Court Review 1995, 277-321.

Maschke, Karen J. ed. (1997). The Legal Response to Violence Against Women. New York: Garland Publishing.

Matoesian, Gregory M. (1993). Reproducing Rape: Domination through Talk in the Courtroom. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
*can i just say right now off record that Matoesian fucking rules? reading this, i kept saying to myself, jesus, someone (and a male someone to boot) gets it.

Matoesian, Gregory M. (1995). Language, Law, and Society: Policy Implications of the Kennedy Smith Rape Trial. Law and Society Review 29:4, 669-702.

Matoesian, Gregory M. (1997 Winter). "You Were Interested in Him as a Person?": Rhythms of Domination in the Kennedy Smith Rape Trial. Law and Social Inquiry 22:1, 55-93.

O'Barr, William M. and Bowman K. Atkins. (1998). "Women's Language" or "Powerless Language"? Language and Gender: A Reader. Jennifer Coates ed. Oxford UK: Blackwell Publishers, 377-387.

Scheppele, Kim Lane. (1994 Autumn). Manners of Imagining the Real. Law and Social Inquiry 19:4, 995-1022.

Woodbury, Hanni. (1984). The Strategic Use of Questions in Court. Semiotica 48, 197-??.


*also: Elizabeth Loftus

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there was more to say but i forget as usual. it'll come to me.