The Language of Jury Trial
A Corpus-Aided Linguistic Analysis of Legal-Lay Discourse
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Word Count
68,000 words, Guess
Page Count
272 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL8399793M
- ISBN-139781403942470
- ISBN-101403942471
- OCLC Control Number61878985
- OCLC Control Numberlanguagejurytria00heff
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- Library of Congress Control Number2006280016
- LibraryThing8092324
- Goodreads5668812
Classifications
- LCCP40-40.5K5000-5582K2
Description
"This is the first detailed analysis of the language of legal professionals in English jury trial, drawing on the largest and must representative corpus of official trial transcripts ever compiled. Chris Heffer analyses patterns of language use across hundreds of texts and develops a model of legal-lay communication based on strategic tension between narrative and scientific modes of reasoning. As well as providing, descriptive and explanatory accounts of 'legal-lay discourse', the book makes a linguistic case for the survival of the lay jury against growing calls for professionalization."--BOOK JACKET.
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