Language and the Law in Deaf Communities

Ceil Lucas (Ed.)

The ninth volume in the Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities series, this focuses on forensic linguistics, a field created by noted linguist Roger Shuy, who begins the collection with an introduction of the issue of language problems experienced by minorities in legal settings. Other contributors show how deaf Americans using ASL are at a distinct disadvantage in legal situations, examine the use of interpreters for deaf jurors during trials, and suggest that the difficulty in understanding legal terminology in US federal law is compounded for deaf people in every ordinary act like form filling. Hardcover 240 pages 2003

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