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1 online resource (xiii, 246 pages) : illustrations |
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Studies in interactional sociolinguistics ; 32 |
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Studies in interactional sociolinguistics ; 32.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Epigraph; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Transcription Conventions; Introduction; Plan of the Book; 1 Multimodal Conduct: What Is It?; What Are Gestures?; McNeill's Gesture Classification Typology; Gaze, Postural Orientation, and Movement; Materiality; Written and Verbal Language in Multimodal Conduct; Applied Implications of Multimodal Conduct for the Law; Multimodal Conduct as Verbal Artistry in Court; The Data and a Methodological Note on Data from Courts; Part I Negotiating Legal Identity in Multimodal Conduct |
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2 Co-Constructing Expert IdentityIntroduction; Academic Medicine; Teacher; Researcher; Administrator; Professional Service; Conclusion; 3 The Transformation of Evidence into Precedent; Introduction; Intertextuality and Participation; The Discursive Organization of Temporal Contrast; Enticing the Victim into His Territory; Fostering Trust in Multimodal Detail; Sociocultural Forms of Domination; 4 Negotiating Intertextuality; Language, Power, and Participation; Cross-Examination of Ann Mercer by Defense Attorney Roy Black; A Deviant Case Embodied |
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You Might Win the Battle but Lose the War: Strategic versus Tactical ManeuversThe Art of Impression Management: Intertextual and Interdiscursive Epistemologies; Reported Speech as an Interactive and Embodied Activity; Conclusion; Part II Trial Practice in Multimodal Conduct; 5 Motives and Accusations; Data Extract 1; Victim Re-Direct Examination; Multimodal Accusations; Gesture and the Emergent Organization of Maternal Identity; Repeating and Recycling the Accusation; Multimodal and Multiparty Forms of Participation; Back to Ulterior Motives; Conclusion; 6 Nailing Down an Answer; Control |
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DataCommodification of Utterances and Normative Accountability of Profit Maximization; Legal Epistemology in the Collaboration between Witnesses; Nailing Down the Facts; Resurrecting Evaluation and Blame; Nailing Down Facts Again; Legal Epistemology in Multimodal Participation; Was Mercer Being Evasive?; Conclusion; 7 Exhibits, Tapes, and Inconsistency; Material Conduct; Data and Ethnographic Background of the Excerpt; Conclusion; Part III Integrating Gestures and Material Objects in Closing Argument; 8 Material Mediated Gestures; Beats and Materiality |
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Speaker Positioning and Impression ManagementSpeaker Alignment and Hearer Engagement; Rhythmic Integration of Gesture and Speech; Epistemic Stance and Multimodal Conduct; Transcript Gestures; Conclusion; 9 Rhythmic Gestures and Semanticity; Finger Movements; It's Not a Freeze Frame; What Happens When Bodies Collide; Conclusion; 10 Conclusion; Residual Semanticity; Counting Off Inconsistencies; References; Index |
| Summary |
The study of language and law has seen explosive growth in the past twenty-five years. Research on police interrogations, trial examination, jury deliberation, plea bargains, same sex marriage, to name a few, has shown the central role of written and oral forms of language in the construction of legal meaning. However, there is another side of language that has rarely been analyzed in legal settings: the role of gesture and how it integrates with language in the law. This is the first book-length investigation of language and multimodal conduct in the law. Using audio-video tapes from a famous rape trial, Matoesian and Gilbert examine legal identity and impression management in the sociocultural performance of precedent, expert testimony, closing argument, exhibits, reported speech and trial examination. Drawing on insights from Jakobson and Silverstein, the authors show how the poetic function inheres not only in language but multimodal conduct generally. Their analysis opens up new empirical territory for both forensic linguistics and gesture studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 3, 2019) |
| SUBJECT |
Language and linguistics. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no90000417
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Language and linguistics fast |
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Law -- Language.
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Semantics (Law)
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Sociological jurisprudence.
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LAW -- Essays.
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LAW -- General Practice.
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LAW -- Jurisprudence.
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LAW -- Paralegals & Paralegalism.
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LAW -- Practical Guides.
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LAW -- Reference.
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Law -- Language
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Semantics (Law)
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Sociological jurisprudence
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Gilbert, Kristin Enola, author.
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| ISBN |
9781108246972 |
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1108246974 |
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