Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction
1.Textual Travel in Legal-Lay Communication
PART ONE: Police Investigation as TextuaI Mediation
2.The Transformation of Discourse in Emergency Calls to the Police
3.From Legislation to the Courts: Providing Safe Passage for Legal Texts through
4.\"Every Link in the Chain\": The Police Interview as Textuallntersection
PART TWO: the Legal Case as Intertextual Construction
5.'The atricks'in the Courtroom: The Intertextual Construction of Legal Cases
6.Travels of a Suspect's Statement
7.Embedding Police Interviews in the Prosecution Case in the Shipman Trial
8.Tracing Crime Narratives in the PaLmer Trial (1856): From the Lawyer's Opening Speechest ot he judge's Summing Up
PART THREE:Judicial Discourse as Leg;al Recontextualization
9.Post-Penetration Rape and the Decontextualization of Witness Testimony
10.Communication and Magic: Authorized Voice, Legal-Linguistic Habitus, and the Recontextualization of \"Beyond Reasonable Doubt\"
11.Troubling the Legal-Lay Distinction: Litigant Briefs, OraI Argument, and a Public Hearing about Same-Sex Marriage
PART FOUR: Crossing Cultural and Ideological Categories in Lay-Legal Communication
12.The Discourse of DNA: Giving Informed Consent to Genetic Research
13.Travelling Texts: The Legal-Lay lnterface in Ihe Highway Code
14.Recalling Rape: Moving Beyond What We Know
Index