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LINGUIST List 18.328

Wed Jan 31 2007

Books: Discourse Analysis/Sociolinguistics: Mertz

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        1.    Elyse Turr, The Language of Law School: Mertz
Message 1: The Language of Law School: Mertz
Date: 29-Jan-2007
From: Elyse Turr <elyse.turroup.com>
Subject: The Language of Law School: Mertz


Title: The Language of Law School
Subtitle: Learning to "think like a lawyer"
Published: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press
                http://www.oup.com/us

Author: Elizabeth Mertz
Hardback: ISBN: 9780195182866 Pages: 272 Price: U.S. $ 99.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9780195183108 Pages: 272 Price: U.S. $ 35.00
Abstract:

Anthropologist and law professor Elizabeth Mertz takes us inside the
first-year law classroom, unpacking the mysterious process by which law
students learn to "think like lawyers." This process, which forces students
to think and talk in radically new and different ways about conflicts, is
directed by professors in the course of their lectures and examinations,
and conducted via spoken and written language. Using linguistic analysis,
this book tracks the relentless shift away from social and moral grounding
that law students must undergo to become lawyers. Mertz bases her study on
tape recordings from first year Contracts courses in eight different law
schools.

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                            Sociolinguistics

Written In: English (eng )

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