The Language of Jury Trial: A Corpus-aided Linguistic Analysis of Legal-lay Discourse - Couverture rigide

Heffer, C.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1403942471 ISBN 13 : 9781403942470

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

CHRIS HEFFER is a lecturer in the Centre for Language and Communication Research at Cardiff University, Wales, where he teaches forensic linguistics and language and culture.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1403942471
• ISBN 13: 9781403942470
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 274
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