[PDF.62ma] The Language of Jury Trial: A Corpus-Aided Analysis of Legal-Lay Discourse

The Language of Jury Trial: A Corpus-Aided Analysis of Legal-Lay Discourse

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 | #9489501 in Books |  Palgrave Macmillan |  2005-11-01 |  2006-04-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x.69 x5.50l,.98 | File type: PDF | 253 pages

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||About the Author|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.||

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 l...

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