The Language of Jury Trial: A Corpus-Aided Analysis of Legal-Lay Discourse by Heffer, C.

The Language of Jury Trial: A Corpus-Aided Analysis of Legal-Lay Discourse (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781349521371)

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The Language of Jury Trial: A Corpus-Aided Analysis of Legal-Lay Discourse by Heffer, C.

The Language of Jury Trial: A Corpus-Aided Analysis of Legal-Lay Discourse

$109.99
The Language of Jury Trial: A Corpus-Aided Analysis of Legal-Lay Discourse by Heffer, C.

The Language of Jury Trial: A Corpus-Aided Analysis of Legal-Lay Discourse

$109.99
Format: Paperback
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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 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.

Author: C. Heffer
ISBN-10: 134952137X
ISBN-13: 9781349521371
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2005
Pages: 253
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.62d
By C. Heffer
By C. Heffer
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CHRIS HEFFER is a lecturer in the Centre for Language and Communication Research at Cardiff University, Wales, where he teaches forensic linguistics and language and culture.

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