Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

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Introduction: Language Ideology in the Hearsay Doctrine and the Modern Excited
Utterance Exception to Hearsay

Chapter 1: Legal Discourse of Domestic Violence: Language Ideology and Trustworthiness

Part I: Anglo-American Law and the In/admissibility of Hearsay

Chapter 2: Legal Empiricism in/and the Language Ideology of Hearsay

Chapter 3: Social Discourses about Domestic Violence and Hearsay: Interdiscursivity and Indexicality in the US Supreme Court

Part II: The Excited Utterance Exception in US v. Hadley

Chapter 4: Making the Excited Utterance Legally Intelligible: Shifting Audiences, Contexts, and Speakers

Chapter 5: The Attribution and Disattribution of Discursive Agency in the Excited Utterance Exception to Hearsay

Chapter 6: Conclusions: Language Ideology and the Legal Accounting for Domestic Violence

About the Author

Jennifer Andrus is an assistant professor of Writing and Rhetoric Studies at the University of Utah, where she teaches courses on rhetorical theory, discourse analysis, and legal rhetoric. Her current research is on domestic violence and the Anglo-American law of evidence, and the ways in which metadiscourses and text production constrain discursive agency. She has publications in Technical Communication Quarterly, Discourse and Society,
Language in Society, and College Composition and Communication.

Reviews

"[T]his book is rich with information and extremely interesting. This is an incredibly complex topic; Andrus has to negotiate and explicate the connections between notions of gender and power, legal discourse and ideology, and language ideology. The topic often lends itself to a meta-discourse (language about language about language), and thus must be a thorny argument to develop and express. Andrus manages it well; this book is clear and relatively easy to
understand. While it may be especially appealing to those researchers studying legal discourse, or those working in discourse around domestic violence, the book may be accessible and edifying for anyone
who is interested in the myriad connections between language, social institutions and ideology" --Discourse & Society