Trial language : differential discourse processing and discursive formation /

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This study of Anglo-American legal discourse is the first comprehensive discourse analysis of American legal language in its prototypical setting, the trial by jury. With ethnographic data gathered in a civil jury trial, the book compares the discourse processing of the legal participants and the la...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stygall, Gail
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., ©1994.
Colección:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 26.
Temas:
Discourse analysis.
Law > Language.
Analyse du discours.
Anglais (Langue) > Anglais juridique.
pragmatics.
REFERENCE > Word Lists.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Vocabulary.
Discourse analysis
Law > Language
Sprachgebrauch
Prozess
Diskursanalyse
Rechtstaal.
Englisch.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This study of Anglo-American legal discourse is the first comprehensive discourse analysis of American legal language in its prototypical setting, the trial by jury. With ethnographic data gathered in a civil jury trial, the book compares the discourse processing of the legal participants and the lay jurors in the trial. This study examining an entire trial, finds that it is constraints at the level of a Foucauldian discursive formation that prevent lay understanding. Those constraints include the allocation of narrative speaking roles primarily to legal speakers in genres in which no sworn evi.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xi, 226 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and index.
ISBN:9789027282842
9027282846
ISSN:0922-842X ;

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