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By Susan Ehrlich

Representing Rape is the 1st feminist research of the language of sexual attack trials from the point of view of linguists. Susan Ehrlich argues that language is significant to all felony settings - in particular sexual harassment and acquaintance rape hearings the place linguistic descriptions of the occasions are frequently the one form of proof on hand. Language doesn't easily replicate yet is helping to build the nature of the folk and occasions below research.
The publication relies round a case research of the trial of a male pupil accused of 2 cases of sexual attack in assorted settings: a college tribunal and a legal trial. this example is positioned inside overseas reports on rape trials and is proper to the felony platforms of the united states, Canada, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. She indicates how culturally-dominant notions approximately rape percolate during the speak of sexual attack circumstances in numerous settings and eventually form their consequence. Ehrlich hopes that to appreciate rape trials during this manner is to acknowledge their capability for switch. via highlighting the underlying preconceptions and prejudices within the language of courtrooms this present day, this crucial publication paves the best way in the direction of a fairer judicial method for the future.

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