Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction
1．Textual Travel in Legal-Lay Communication

PART ONE： Police Investigation as TextuaI Mediation
2．The Transformation of Discourse in Emergency Calls to the Police
3．From Legislation to the Courts： Providing Safe Passage for Legal Texts through
4．"Every Link in the Chain"： The Police Interview as Textuallntersection

PART TWO： the Legal Case as Intertextual Construction
5．'The atricks'in the Courtroom： The Intertextual Construction of Legal Cases
6．Travels of a Suspect's Statement
7．Embedding Police Interviews in the Prosecution Case in the Shipman Trial
8．Tracing Crime Narratives in the PaLmer Trial （1856）： From the Lawyer's Opening Speechest ot he judge's Summing Up

PART THREE：Judicial Discourse as Leg;al Recontextualization
9．Post-Penetration Rape and the Decontextualization of Witness Testimony
10．Communication and Magic： Authorized Voice， Legal-Linguistic Habitus， and the Recontextualization of "Beyond Reasonable Doubt"
Il．Troubling the Legal-Lay Distinction： Litigant Briefs， OraI Argument， and a Public Hearing about Same-Sex Marriage

PART FOUR： Crossing Cultural and Ideological Categories in Lay-Legal Communication
12．The Discourse of DNA： Giving Informed Consent to Genetic Research
13．Travelling Texts： The Legal-Lay lnterface in Ihe Highway Code
14．Recalling Rape： Moving Beyond What We Know

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