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Linguistic evidence : language, power, and strategy in the courtroom /
With the permission of a North Carolina court, more than 150 hours of courtroom speech were recorded for this study. These tapes provided a rich archive for a variety of different types of inquiry, including the ethnography of courtroom speech and social psychological experiments focused on effects...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Diego :
Academic Press,
[1995], 1982]
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| Colección: | Studies on law and social control.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Linguistic Evidence; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION; The Importance of Form in Language; Language Strategy; Language and Justice; The Study of Courtroom Language; Chapter 2. THE NATURE OF LEGAL LANGUAGE; Written Legal Language; Spoken Legal Language; Chapter 3. LEGAL ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION; Legal Tacticians; The Courts; The Law; Chapter 4. ETHNOGRAPHY AND EXPERIMENTATION; Deriving the Research Questions; Specific Procedures; Chapter 5. SPEECH STYLES IN THE COURTROOM.
- Powerful versus Powerless SpeechNarrative versus Fragmented Testimony Styles; Hypercorrect Testimony Style; Interruptions and Simultaneous Speech; Chapter 6. CONTROLLING THE EFFECTS OF PRESENTATIONAL STYLE; Attempts to Control Style Effects; Interpretation and the Management of Style; Chapter 7. CONCLUSIONS; Implications for the Law; Implications for Social Science; Further Questions; Appendix 1: TRANSCRIPTS OF ""POWERFUL"" AND ""POWERLESS"" STYLES; Powerless Style (Female Witness); Powerful Style (Female Witness); Appendix 2: TRANSCRIPTS OF NARRATIVE AND FRAGMENTED STYLES; Fragmented Style.
- Narrative StyleAppendix 3: TRANSCRIPTS OF HYPERCORRECT AND FORMAL STYLES; Hypercorrect Style; Formal Style; Appendix 4: TRANSCRIPTS OF OVERLAPPING AND NONOVERLAPPING SPEECH; Nonoverlapping Style; Overlapping Style-Lawyer Dominates; Overlapping Style-Witness Dominates; REFERENCES; Cases; Books and Articles; INDEX.