The Language of Jury Trial: A Corpus-Aided Analysis of Legal-Lay Discourse
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.
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The Language of Jury Trial: A Corpus-Aided Analysis of Legal-Lay Discourse
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.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781403942470 |
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Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
Publication date: | 11/01/2005 |
Edition description: | 2005 |
Pages: | 253 |
Product dimensions: | 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d) |
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