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Author Wagner, Anne, 1968-

Title Exploring courtroom discourse : the language of power and control / edited by Anne Wagner and Le Cheng
Published Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2011]
©2011

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Description xvii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Series Law, language and communication
Law, language and communication.
Contents Introduction: language, power and control in courtroom discourse / Anne Wagner and Le Cheng -- Understanding courtroom communication through cultural scripts / Kim McCaul -- Witnesses on trial: address and referring terms in U.S. cases / Sarah Dettenwanger -- (False) confessions become compelling at trial / Gillian Grebler -- The role of metadiscourse in counsels' questions / Silvia Cavalieri -- Constructing legal narratives: client-lawyer's stories / Flora Di Donato -- Some uses of magical images in law / Christine A. Corcos -- The construction of admissions of fault through American rules of evidence: speech, silence, and significance in the legal creation of liability / Janet Ainsworth -- The construction of truth in legal decision-making / Petrina Schiavi -- Hidden penalties faced by non-english speakers in the UK criminal justice system: an interpreting perspective / Roxana Rycroft -- Language alternation in Kenyan and Malaysian courts / Richard Powell and Maya David -- Place of arbitration in online proceedings as a simulacrum / Joanna Jemielniak
Summary This volume presents a combination of practical, empirical research data and theoretical reflection to provide a comparative view of language and discourse in the courtroom
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Conduct of court proceedings -- Language.
Conduct of court proceedings -- Terminology.
Conduct of court proceedings.
Forensic oratory.
Judicial process -- Language.
Judicial process.
Law -- Language.
Law -- Methodology.
Psycholinguistics.
Semantics (Law)
Semiotics (Law)
Author Cheng, Le.
Wagner, Anne, 1968-
LC no. 2010052226
ISBN 1409423476 (hbk. : alk. paper)
1409423484 (ebk.)
9781409423478 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9781409423485 (ebk.)