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Trial language : differential discourse processing and discursive formation /

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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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.
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  • TRIAL LANGUAGE DIFFERENTIAL DISCOURSE PROCESSING AND DISCURSIVE FORMATION; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Table of contents; FIGURES AND TABLES; Abbreviations; CHAPTER 1. LEGAL LANGUAGE, DISCOURSE ANALYSIS, ANDSOCIAL THEORY; CHAPTER 2. FROM TEXT TO TALK: JUROR QUALIFICATION RITES IN AN INDIANA COURT; CHAPTER 3. TEXT IN TALK: PRELIMINARY INSTRUCTIONSAND OPENING STATEMENTS; CHAPTER 4. STORIES BY QUESTION AND ANSWER: THE EVIDENCE STAGE; CHAPTER 5. LAST WORDS: FINAL ARGUMENT AND INSTRUCTIONS; CHAPTER 6. LEGAL DISCOURSE AND DISCURSIVE FORMATIONS; NOTES.