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Experts In Linguistics And Law Use Diverse Theoretical And Analytical Approaches To Demonstrate The Complex Ways In Which Language Is Used To Seek, Steer, Give, Or Withhold Consent In A Range Of Legal Contexts. The Book Illuminates Problematic Issues In Legal Practices And Procedures That May Otherwise Be Uncritically Accepted. Introduction: Linguistic And Discursive Dimensions Of Consent / Susan Ehrlich And Diana Eades -- Culture, Cursing, And Coercion: The Impact Of Police Officer Swearing On The Voluntariness Of Consent To Search In Police-citizen Interactions / Janet Ainsworth -- Post-penetration Rape: Coercion Or Freely-given Consent? / Susan Ehrlich -- Erasing Context In The Courtroom Construal Of Consent / Diana Eades -- Talking The Ethical Turn: Drawing On Tick-box Consent In Policing / Frances Rock -- Transparent And Opaque Consent In Contract Formation / Lawrence M. Solan -- The Empty Performative?: Informed Consent To Genetic Research / John Conley, R. Jean Cadigan And Arlene Davis -- Promoting Litigant Consent To Arbitration In Multilingual Small Claims Court / Philipp Sebastian Angermeyer -- Consent And Compliance In Youth Justice Conferences / Michele Zappavigna, Paul Dwyer And J.r. Martin -- Non-consent And Discursive Resistance: Radical Reformulation In A Post-sting Police Interview / Philip Gaines -- Totality Of Circumstances And Translating The Miranda Warnings / Susan Berk-seligson -- Negotiating The Right To Remain Silent In Inquisitorial Trials / Fleur Van Der Houwen And Guusje Jol -- No Comment Responses To Questions In Police Investigative Interviews / Elizabeth Stokoe, Derek Edwards And Helen Edwards. Edited By Susan Ehrlich, Diana Eades, And Janet Ainsworth. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.