Multimodal conduct in the law : language, gesture and materiality in legal interaction /
The study of language and law has seen explosive growth in the past twenty-five years. Research on police interrogations, trial examination, jury deliberation, plea bargains, same sex marriage, to name a few, has shown the central role of written and oral forms of language in the construction of leg...
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| Формат: | Licensed eBooks |
| Язык: | английский |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2018.
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| Серии: | Studies in interactional sociolinguistics ;
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| Online-ссылка: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1875024 |
Оглавление:
- Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Epigraph; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Transcription Conventions; Introduction; Plan of the Book; 1 Multimodal Conduct: What Is It?; What Are Gestures?; McNeill's Gesture Classification Typology; Gaze, Postural Orientation, and Movement; Materiality; Written and Verbal Language in Multimodal Conduct; Applied Implications of Multimodal Conduct for the Law; Multimodal Conduct as Verbal Artistry in Court; The Data and a Methodological Note on Data from Courts; Part I Negotiating Legal Identity in Multimodal Conduct
- 2 Co-Constructing Expert IdentityIntroduction; Academic Medicine; Teacher; Researcher; Administrator; Professional Service; Conclusion; 3 The Transformation of Evidence into Precedent; Introduction; Intertextuality and Participation; The Discursive Organization of Temporal Contrast; Enticing the Victim into His Territory; Fostering Trust in Multimodal Detail; Sociocultural Forms of Domination; 4 Negotiating Intertextuality; Language, Power, and Participation; Cross-Examination of Ann Mercer by Defense Attorney Roy Black; A Deviant Case Embodied
- You Might Win the Battle but Lose the War: Strategic versus Tactical ManeuversThe Art of Impression Management: Intertextual and Interdiscursive Epistemologies; Reported Speech as an Interactive and Embodied Activity; Conclusion; Part II Trial Practice in Multimodal Conduct; 5 Motives and Accusations; Data Extract 1; Victim Re-Direct Examination; Multimodal Accusations; Gesture and the Emergent Organization of Maternal Identity; Repeating and Recycling the Accusation; Multimodal and Multiparty Forms of Participation; Back to Ulterior Motives; Conclusion; 6 Nailing Down an Answer; Control
- DataCommodification of Utterances and Normative Accountability of Profit Maximization; Legal Epistemology in the Collaboration between Witnesses; Nailing Down the Facts; Resurrecting Evaluation and Blame; Nailing Down Facts Again; Legal Epistemology in Multimodal Participation; Was Mercer Being Evasive?; Conclusion; 7 Exhibits, Tapes, and Inconsistency; Material Conduct; Data and Ethnographic Background of the Excerpt; Conclusion; Part III Integrating Gestures and Material Objects in Closing Argument; 8 Material Mediated Gestures; Beats and Materiality
- Speaker Positioning and Impression ManagementSpeaker Alignment and Hearer Engagement; Rhythmic Integration of Gesture and Speech; Epistemic Stance and Multimodal Conduct; Transcript Gestures; Conclusion; 9 Rhythmic Gestures and Semanticity; Finger Movements; It's Not a Freeze Frame; What Happens When Bodies Collide; Conclusion; 10 Conclusion; Residual Semanticity; Counting Off Inconsistencies; References; Index