Trial language: differential discourse processing and discursive formation

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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 …

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Full title :Trial language : differential discourse processing and discursive formation / Gail Stygall.

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Publication Date:©1994.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):J. Benjamins Pub. Co
Place of Publication:Amsterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1994.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xi, 226 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789027282842, 9027282846
oclc:ocn744333872
LC Classification:P302
Dewey Decimal:401/.41

TRIAL LANGUAGE DIFFERENTIAL DISCOURSE PROCESSING AND DISCURSIVE FORMATION; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Table of contents; FIGURES AND TABLES; Abbreviations; CHAPTER 1. LEGAL LANGUAGE, DISCOURSE ANALYSIS, ANDSOCIAL THEORY; CHAPTER 2. FROM TEXT TO TALK: JUROR QUALIFICATION RITES IN AN INDIANA COURT; CHAPTER 3. TEXT IN TALK: PRELIMINARY INSTRUCTIONSAND OPENING STATEMENTS; CHAPTER 4. STORIES BY QUESTION AND ANSWER: THE EVIDENCE STAGE; CHAPTER 5. LAST WORDS: FINAL ARGUMENT AND INSTRUCTIONS; CHAPTER 6. LEGAL DISCOURSE AND DISCURSIVE FORMATIONS; NOTES.

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Analyse du discours Anglais (Langue) -- Anglais juridique Discourse analysis Diskursanalyse Englisch LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Vocabula… Law -- Language Pragmatics Prozess Rechtstaal REFERENCE -- Word Lists Sprachgebrauch