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Separate and Unequal: Judicial Rhetoric and Women's Rights

By Huang Hoon Chng

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins
Year
2002
ISBN
9027226938, 9789027226938
ISSN
1569-9463
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1004 kB (1027937 bytes)
Series
Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 3
Pages
164\166
Time added
2015-07-14 09:12:14
Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Гендерная лингвист

Description

This book argues for a multidisciplinary approach to the study of the language of judges with respect to the issue of gender discrimination. Drawing its inspiration from Dell Hymes' socially constituted linguistics, the author examines the language of the judicial opinions of four U.S. Supreme Court cases addressing social and legal discrimination against women. Through a linguistic analysis that is informed by a Foucauldian and feminist perspective, this book addresses the complex issues of the power of judges and ideologies, the politics of language use, and feminist contributions to the subject of discrimination and women's rights. This book is most suitable for researchers and students in cultural studies, ethnography, feminist legal studies, forensic linguistics, gender studies, ideology research, pragmatics, semiotics, and social studies.

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