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The jury summation as speech genre : an ethnographic study of what it means to those who use it /
The American courtroom trial is a speech situation. Everything occurs through the spoken word. The summation', as speech event embedded within the trial, which is the chronological and psychological culmination of it, is one of the few opportunities for the lawyer to communicate directly with j...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1988.
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| Colección: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
new ser. 1. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The American courtroom trial is a speech situation. Everything occurs through the spoken word. The summation', as speech event embedded within the trial, which is the chronological and psychological culmination of it, is one of the few opportunities for the lawyer to communicate directly with jurors. But the speech genre summation involves preliminaries as well as the event itself; and it can affect the aftermath of the trial, for the decisions of the jurors may be influenced by this discourse. This ethnographic study considers the summation from three perspectives: that of the producer, from t. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 264 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-259) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027283382 9027283389 |