Kashimura2015
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Kashimura2015 |
| Author(s) | Shiro Kashimura |
| Title | Hearing clients' talk as lawyers' work: the case of public legal consultation conference |
| Editor(s) | Baudouin Dupret, Michael Lynch, Tim Berard |
| Tag(s) | Ethnomethodology, Law |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year | 2015 |
| Language | English |
| City | Oxford |
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| Pages | 87–113 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190210243.003.0005 |
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| Book title | Law at Work: Studies in Legal Ethnomethods |
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Abstract
Drawing on transcripts of public legal consultation conferences in Japan, this chapter explicates some methodic ways in which a member of the legal profession hears a citizen/client’s talk. It shows how (1) the conversational organization of the conference makes any individual piece of information displayed in the conversational turns observable as a feature of client’s telling and lawyer’s hearing; (2) lawyer’s ongoing and contingent judgments about the information told by the client are also displayed and made noticeable in the process; and (3) distinctively legal features of the story emerge through the differential but mutual attentiveness to the telling and hearing of a story of trouble. As a whole, the chapter presents and analyzes an instance of the social construction of legality as a uniquely situated methodic achievement in a lawyer’s hearing, fact-finding, and glossing of a story told in a legal setting.
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