A communication analysis of power in small claims court: A feminist perspective

This feminist discourse analysis examined litigants' and judges' speech in thirty small claims court hearings. Two areas of interaction were examined: The speech strategies people used to negotiate public institutions and the ways power relations of gender, race, class, and ethnicity were...

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Main Author: Wiss, Kathryn A
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 1993
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9316726