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The Language of Jury Trial A CorpusAided Linguistic Analysis of LegalLay Discourse
Author: Chris Heffer

Drawing on representative corpora of transcripts from over 100 English criminal jury trials, this stimulating new book explores the nature of 'legal-lay discourse', or the language used by legal professionals before lay juries. Careful analyses of genres such as witness examination and the judge's summing-up reveal a strategic tension between a ...  more »desire to persuade the jury and the need to conform to legal constraints. The book also suggests ways of managing this tension linguistically to help, not hinder, the jury.  « less

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ISBN-13: 9781403942470
ISBN-10: 1403942471
Publication Date: 4/30/2006
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Book Type: Hardcover
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