TY  - GEN
T1  - Trial language : differential discourse processing and discursive formation
T2  - Pragmatics & beyond ;
A1  - Stygall, Gail
LA  - English
PP  - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia
PB  - J. Benjamins Pub. Co.
YR  - 1994
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn744333872
AB  - 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.
OP  - 226
CN  - P302 .S788 1994eb
SN  - 9789027282842
SN  - 9027282846
SN  - 9027250383
SN  - 9789027250384
SN  - 1556192940
SN  - 9781556192944
KW  - Discourse analysis.
KW  - Law : Language.
KW  - Analyse du discours.
KW  - Anglais (Langue) : Anglais juridique.
KW  - pragmatics.
KW  - REFERENCE : Word Lists.
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES : Vocabulary.
KW  - Discourse analysis
KW  - Law : Language
KW  - Sprachgebrauch
KW  - Prozess
KW  - Diskursanalyse
KW  - Rechtstaal.
KW  - Englisch.
KW  - Electronic book.
ER  -