"That Accursed Aesopian Language": Prosecutorial Framing of Linguistic Evidence in "U.S. v. Foster", 1949

This essay offers an elaboration of Stanley Fish's contention that politics trumps free speech. By examining the manner in which the prosecution framed linguistic evidence in the 1949 trial of 11 leaders of the Communist Party of the United States of America, the author argues that those who ow...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Rhetoric & public affairs 2001-04, Vol.4 (1), p.109-134
1. Verfasser:	Allen, Julia M.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Civil Rights Communism Communist Parties Criminal prosecution Defendants Freedom of speech Language Legal Cases Marxian economics Political rhetoric Political violence Prosecutors Rhetoric Trials United States of America
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Zusammenfassung:	This essay offers an elaboration of Stanley Fish's contention that politics trumps free speech. By examining the manner in which the prosecution framed linguistic evidence in the 1949 trial of 11 leaders of the Communist Party of the United States of America, the author argues that those who own a given speech situation can also occupy the speech of others in that situation, using common features of language.
ISSN:	1094-8392 1534-5238 1534-5238
DOI:	10.1353/rap.2001.0001