The Language of Jury Trial: A Corpus-Aided Analysis of Legal-Lay Discourse (2005)
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- Synopsis
- Drawing on representative corpora of transcripts from over 100 English criminal jury trials, this stimulating new book explores the nature of 'legal-lay discourse', or the language used by legal professionals before lay juries. Careful analyses of genres such as witness examination and the judge's summing-up reveal a strategic tension between a desire to persuade the jury and the need to conform to legal constraints. The book also suggests ways of managing this tension linguistically to help, not hinder, the jury.
- Copyright:
- 2005
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780230502888
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781403942470
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan UK, London
- Date of Addition:
- 12/08/20
- Copyrighted By:
- N/A
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Social Studies, Language Arts, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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