Kellermann's Kollectionn of Helpful Trial Background Books on:
LANGUAGE & LAW
Last Updated 11/17/97

1. Bahm, Kenneth Thomas. (1994). Law, Language, and Sex Difference: A Study of Language Use by Female and Male Attorneys in Criminal Trials in the United States. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois.
   
   
2. Bellow, Gary, & Minow, Martha. (Eds.). (1996). Law Stories. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
   
   
3. Bennett, W. Lance., & Feldman, Martha S. (1981). Reconstructing Reality In The Courtroom: Justice And Judgement In American Culture. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
   
   
4. Berk-Seligson, Susan. (1990). The Bilingual Courtroom: Court Interpreters in the Judicial Process. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
   
   
5. Bosmajian, Haig. (1992). Metaphor and Reason in Judicial Opinions. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.
   
   
6. Brooks, Peter & Gewirtz, Paul (Eds.). (1996). Law's Stories: Narrative and Rhetoric in the Law. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
   
   
7. Conley, John M. (1990). Rules vs. Relationships: The Ethnography of Legal Discourse. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
   
   
8. Engel, S. Morris. (1994). Fallacies and Pitfalls of Language: The Language Trap. New York: Dover.
   
   
9. Gardner, James A. (1993). Legal Argument: The Structure and Language of Effective Advocacy. Charlottesville, VA: Michie.
   
   
10. Gibbons, John. (Ed.). (1994). Language and the Law. London, UK: Longman.
    
    
11. Goodrich, Peter. (1987). Legal Discourse: Studies in Linguistics, Rhetoric, and Legal Analysis. New York: St. Martin's Press.
    
    
12. Kniffka, Hannes, Blackwell, Susan, & Coulthard, Malcolm (Eds.). (1996). Recent Developments in Forensic Linguistics. New York: P. Lang.
    
    
13. Kochman, Thomas. (1981). Black and White Styles in Conflict. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
    
    
14. Kurzon, Dennis. (1987). It Is Hereby Performed: Explorations in Legal Speech Acts. Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins Pub.
    
    
15. LaFree, Gary D. (1989). Rape and Criminal Justice: The Social Construction of Sexual Assault. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Pub.
    
    
16. Lakoff, Robin Tolmach. (1990). Talking Power: The Politics of Language. ----: BasicBooks.
    
    
17. Levi, Judith N. (1982). Linguistics, Language and Law: A Topical Bibliography. Bloomington, IN: Reproduced by the Indiana University Linguistics Club.
    
    
18. Matoesian, Gregory M. (1993). Reproducing Rape: Domination Through Talk in the Courtroom. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
    
    
19. Matsuda, Mari J., Lawrence, Charles R., Delgado, Richard, & Crenshaw, Kimberle Williams. (1993). Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, and the First Amendment. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
    
    
20. Nelken, David (Ed.). (1996). Law as Communication. Brookfield, VT: Dartmouth Pub. Co.
    
    
21. O'Barr, William M. (1982). Linguistic Evidence: Language, Power, and Strategy in the Courtroom. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
    
    
22. Oates, David John, & Albrecht, Greg. (1987). Beyond Backward Masking: Reverse Speech and the Voice of the Inner Mind. -----, Australia: ------.
    
    
23. Oates, David John. (1991). Reverse Speech: Hidden Messages in Human Communication. Indianapolis, IN: Knowledge Systems Inc..
    
    
24. Oates, David John. (1996). Reverse Speech: Voices from the Unconscious. Bonsall, CA: Reverse Speech Enterprises.
    
    
25. Oates, David John. (1997). It's Only a Metaphor. Bonsall, CA: Reverse Speech Enterprises.
    
    
26. Oates, David John. (1997). Reverse Speech Metaphor Dictionary. Bonsall, CA: Reverse Speech Enterprises.
    
    
27. Papke, David Ray. (Ed.). Narrative and the Legal Discourse: A Reader in Storytelling and the Law. Liverpool, UK: Deborah Charles.
    
    
28. Philbin, Tom. (1995). Copspeak: The Lingo of Law Enforcement and Crime. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
    
    
29. Philbrick, Frederick A. (1993). Language and the Law: The Semantics of Forensic English. Buffalo, NY: William S. Hein & Co.
    
    
30. Posner, Richard A. (1988). Law and Literature: A Misunderstood Relation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
    
    
31. Sarat, Austin, & Kearns, Thomas R. (Eds.). (1996). The Rhetoric of Law. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
    
    
32. Shreve, Susan Richards, & Shreve, Porter. (Eds.). (1997). Outside the Law: Narratives on Justice in America. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
    
    
33. Shuy, Roger W. (1996). Language Crimes: The Use and Abuse of Language Evidence in the Courtroom. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
    
    
34. Solan, Lawrence M. (1993). The Language of Judges. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
    
    
35. Stygall, Gail. (1994). Trial Language: Differential Discourse Processing and Discursive Formation. Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins Pub.
    
    
36. Travers, Max. (1997). The Reality of Law: Work and Talk in a Firm of Criminal Lawyers. Aldershot, Hampshire, UK: Ashgate Pub.
    
    
37. Travers, Max, & Manzo, John F. (Eds.). (1997). Law in Action: Ethnomethodological and Conversation Analytic Approaches to Law. Aldershot, Hampshire, UK: Ashgate Pub.
    
    
38. Wagenaar, Willem A., van Koppen, Peter J., & Crombag, Hans F. M. (1993). Anchored Narratives: The Psychology of Criminal Evidence. New York: St. Martin's Press.
    
    
39. Walter, Bettyruth. (1988). The Jury Summation as Speech Genre: An Ethnographic Study of What It Means to Those Who Use It. Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamin Pub. Co.
    
    
40. Wardhaugh, Ronald. (1985). How Conversation Works. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell.
    
    
41. White, James Boyd. (1985). Heracles' Bow: Essays on the Rhetoric and Poetics of the Law. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.