C. Heffer

Broschiertes Buch

The Language of Jury Trial

A Corpus-Aided Analysis of Legal-Lay Discourse

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-52137-1
• 2005 edition
• Seitenzahl: 253
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9781349521371
• ISBN-10: 134952137X
• Artikelnr.: 45075187