Language in the Courtroom**Activities of the author in the area of law and language have been supported by the Law and Social Science Program of the National Science Foundation (Grant SOC- 7I+-23503); Israel Foundations Trustees- Ford Foundation; and the Faculty of Social Science, Hebrew University. I am grateful to Bryna Bogoch for help in preparing this paper. For further details on the five papers presented at the Symposium on Law and Language, see Parkinson (1979); Naylor (1979); Danet and Bogoch (1979a); Phillips (1979); and Atkinson (1979).