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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| Формат: | Licensed eBooks |
| Хэл сонгох: | англи |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©1994.
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| Цуврал: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
new ser. 26. |
| Онлайн хандалт: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=380513 |
| Тойм: | 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. |
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| Биет тодорхойлолт: | 1 online resource (xi, 226 pages) : illustrations |
| Формат: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Номзүй: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027282842 9027282846 9027250383 9789027250384 1556192940 9781556192944 |
| ISSN: | 0922-842X ; |