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#MeToo? Legal Discourse and Everyday Responses to Sexual Violence
Laws, 2018 Legal consciousness scholars identify the ways in which law is referenced to authorize, define and evaluate behaviors and choices that occur far outside any formal legal framework.
Alison Gash, Ryan Harding
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Declaratives and Control in Nigerian Courtroom Discourse
English Language and Literature Studies, 2015 This paper attempts to provide an explanatory account of linguistic communication between legal professionals such as lawyers and prosecutors, and the witnesses, with a view to show the power and control prevalent in the courtroom discourse. Making use of 20-hours of audio-tape cases recorded at the High Court of Justice and Magistrate Court in Nigeria
Raifu Olanrewaju Farinde +2 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Improving access to legal services for Indigenous, migrant and refugee women is critical to addressing family violence. In this context, Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) has long been discussed as a solution for separating families. This paper presents key findings of a research evaluation of an Australian Government $8.37 million pilot project
Siobhan McDonnell, Alyson Wright
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A Comparative Analysis of Moral Discourse in Chinese and American Courtrooms
SAGE OpenMoral discourse embodies interpersonal communication, social relations, responsibilities, and obligations and serves as a reasoning and lecturing tool during judicial activities.
Min Yang, Ye Lin
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Social Media and the Electronic “New World” of Judges
International Journal for Court Administration, 2016 Courts in Australia not only have social media policies to control social media use in the courtroom, but are starting to use social media to publish judgments and court-related information.
Judith Gibson
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Miscommunication in the institutional context of the broadcast news interview : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Psychology at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand [PDF]
, 2004 This study examined the pattern and relative success of linguistic interaction in the Broadcast News Interview (BNI). BNI is modelled as a genre of institutional communication.
Hignett, Robert Michael
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Nothing to See Here: Researching Non‐Recent Child Abuse in Schools and the Politics of Silence
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While institutions, including schools, have responsibilities to protect children from harm, responses to instances of child sexual abuse have often exhibited avoidance and denial. Recent public inquiries in Australia revealed that some institutions, particularly in the Catholic sector, employed a deliberate strategy of silence which was used ...
John Crowley +2 more
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International Journal for Court Administration, 2015 In many social realms, social media are employed by institutions to establish direct relations between ‘key agents’ and their clients or customers.
Paul van den Hoven
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Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.In the compression suture group, a 5‐mm‐wide tail skin was removed, and then the defect was sutured to apply compressive force to the intervertebral disc. In the sham group, only the 5‐mm‐wide tail skin was removed without a compression suture. Compression suturing triggers apoptosis, inflammatory response, and imbalance of extracellular matrix ...
Xuening Liu +4 more
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Social Sciences and Humanities OpenThe Rivonia Trial (1963–1964) was a defining moment in the struggle between national security and human rights. This article examines how the apartheid government framed Nelson Mandela as a security threat and how his courtroom rhetoric countered this ...
Haryo Sutanto +3 more
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