Provides an engaging and thought-provoking exploration of the way texts emerging in the legal process 'travel' in various ways to produce new forms and new meanings in new contexts.

• I. INTRODUCTION


• 1. Textual Travel in Legal-Lay Communication


• Frances Rock, Chris Heffer and John Conley


• II. POLICE INVESTIGATION AS TEXTUAL MEDIATION


• 2. The Transformation of Discourse in Emergency Calls to the Police


• Mark Garner and Edward Johnson


• 3. From Legislation to the Courts: Providing Safe Passage for Legal Texts through the Challenges of a Police Interview


• Georgina Heydon


• 4. 'Every Link in the Chain': The Police Interview as Textual Intersection


• Frances Rock


• III. THE LEGAL CASE AS INTERTEXTUAL CONSTRUCTION


• 5. Theatrics in the Courtroom: The Intertextual Construction of Legal Cases


• Katrijn Maryns


• 6. Talk and Text in the Criminal Law Process


• Martha Komter


• 7. Embedding Police Interviews in the Prosecution Case in the Shipman Trial


• Alison Johnson


• 8. Tracing the Crime Narratives within the Palmer Trial (1856): From the Lawyer's Opening Speeches to the Judge's Summing Up


• Dawn Archer


• IV. JUDICIAL DISCOURSE AS LEGAL RECONTEXTUALIZATION


• 9. Post-Penetration Rape and the Decontextualization of Witness Testimony


• Susan Ehrlich


• 10. Communication and Magic: Authorized Voice, Legal-Linguistic Habitus and the Recontextualization of "Beyond Reasonable Doubt"


• Chris Heffer


• 11. Troubling the Legal-Lay Distinction: Litigant Briefs, Oral Argument, and a Public Hearing about Same-Sex Marriage


• Karen Tracy and Erica Delgadillo


• V. CROSSING CULTURAL AND IDEOLOGICAL CATEGORIES IN LAY-LEGAL COMMUNICATION


• 12. The Discourse of DNA: Giving Informed Consent to Genetic Research


• John Conley, Jean Cadigan, Arlene Davis, Allison Dobson,Erin Edwards, Wendell Fortson and Robert Mitchell


• 13. Travelling Texts: The Legal-Lay Interface in The Highway Code


• Bethan Davies


• 14. The Journey Beyond Legitimacy: Moving Forward from What We Know about


• Rape


• Shonna Trinch


• VI. CONCLUSION


• 15. Travelled Texts


• John Conley, Chris Heffer, Frances Rock

Chris Heffer is a Senior Lecturer in Language and Communication at Cardiff University, Wales, and the author of The Language of Jury Trial.

Frances Rock is a Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University and the author of Communicating Rights: The Language of Arrest and Detention. She is one of the editors of the International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law.
John Conley is William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the co-author of Just Words: Law, Language, and Power and co-editor of Polar: The Political and Legal Anthropology Review.