Discursive Constructions of Consent in the Legal Process

Chapter 1
Introduction: Linguistic and Discursive Dimensions of Consent
Susan Ehrlich and Diana Eades

Section 1: Free and voluntary consent
Chapter 2
Culture, cursing, and coercion: The impact of police officer swearing on the voluntariness of consent to search in police-citizen interactions
Janet Ainsworth
Chapter 3
Post-penetration rape: Coercion or freely-given consent?
Susan Ehrlich
Chapter 4
Erasing context in the courtroom construal of consent
Diana Eades

Section 2: Informed consent vs. ritualized consent
Chapter 5
Talking the ethical turn: Drawing on tick-box consent in policing
Frances Rock
Chapter 6
Transparent and opaque consent in contract formation
Lawrence Solan
Chapter 7
The empty performative?: Informed consent to genetic research
John Conley, R. Jean Cadigan and Arlene Davis
Section 3: The influence of discursive practices
Chapter 8
Promoting litigant consent to arbitration in multilingual small claims court
Philipp Sebastian Angermeyer
Chapter 9
Consent and compliance in youth justice conferences?
Michele Zappavigna, Paul Dwyer and J. R. Martin
Chapter 10
Non-consent and discursive resistance: Radical reformulation in a post-sting police interview
Philip Gaines
Section 4: The coercive force of cautions
Chapter 11
Totality of circumstances and translating the Miranda warnings
Susan Berk-Seligson
Chapter 12
Negotiating the right to remain silent in inquisitorial trials
Fleur van der Houwen and Guusje Jol
Chapter 13
'No comment' responses to questions in police investigative interviews
Elizabeth Stokoe, Derek Edwards and Helen Edwards