Heyman Center for the Humanities, Common Room
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Marianne Mason, with funding from the American Council of Learned Societies/ACLS (Fellow ’18), is currently working on a project entitled: Language at the Center of the American Justice System. In this presentation, Mason examines legal institutions’ historical interpretation and enforcement of linguistic actions invoking constitutional rights; laypersons’ knowledge of how discourse is used to achieve linguistic goals in institutional settings; and the effect of Miranda case law on police-layperson custodial exchanges. Mason argues that despite the role of discourse in shaping legal outcomes, the validity and widely accepted use of linguistic analysis to understand a legal process is yet to be fully and uniformly embraced by the courts and those who enforce the law.
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Marianne Mason, James Madison University
Visiting Scholar, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University
Visiting Scholar, Center for Access to Justice, College of Law, Georgia State University
