Debating Hate Crime: Language, Legislatures, and the Law in Canada (Law and Society) - Softcover

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Lunny, Allyson M.

 
9780774829601: Debating Hate Crime: Language, Legislatures, and the Law in Canada (Law and Society)
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ISBN 10: 0774829605 ISBN 13: 9780774829601
Publisher: UBC Press, 2017

Synopsis

Debating Hate Crimes examines the language used by parliamentarians, senators, and committee witnesses to debate Canada's hate laws. Drawing on discourse analysis, semiotics, and critical psychoanalysis, Allyson M. Lunny explores how the tropes, metaphors, and other linguistic signifiers used in these debates expose the particular concerns, trepidations, and anxieties of Canadian lawmakers and the expert witnesses called before their committees. In so doing, Lunny reveals and interrogates the meaning and social signification of the endorsement of, and resistance to, hate law. The result is a rich historical and analytical account of some of Canada's most passionate public debates on victimization, rightful citizenship, social threat, and moral erosion.

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About the Author

Allyson M. Lunny is assistant professor in the law and society program at York University.

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Publisher
UBC Press
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0774829605
ISBN 13 
9780774829601
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
248

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