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"
Il.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
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