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9 - When Voices Fail to Carry: Voice Projection and the Case of the ‘Dumb’ Jury1

from Part IV - Conflict between Linguistic and Legal Ideologies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 December 2017

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Chris Heffer
Edited by
Janny H. C. Leung  and
Alan Durant
Janny H. C. Leung
Affiliation:
The University of Hong Kong
Alan Durant
Affiliation:
Middlesex University, London
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Meaning and Power in the Language of Law , pp. 207 - 235
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Print publication year: 2018

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