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Language on Trial
Author | : Plain English Campaign |
Publsiher | : Robson Books Limited |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105060469652 |
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This book looks at the forces that have made traditional legal language what it is today and suggests some reasoms why the law needs plain English. It also shows why most of its peculiarities are unnecessary.
Trial Language
Author | : Gail Stygall |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1994-11-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027282842 |
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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 the allocation of narrative speaking roles primarily to legal speakers in genres in which no sworn evidence is given, the suppression of narrative in ordinary witnesses, a set of restraints on witnesses' use of certain categories of evidentials, the legal topic originating in textual authority unknown to the lay participants, specific distribution of verb forms by legal genre, and a linguistic “burden” accompanying the legal “burden of proof” in the requirement that the lawyer of the moving party also use and explain technical legal terms to the jury at the same time as he or she presents evidence. All of these factors contribute to the incomprehensibility of legal discourse to lay auditors, resulting in the jury making their decision based on a commonsense script of the events precipitating the trial.The study concludes by arguing for a Foucauldian discourse analysis of institutional languages, a social theory powerful enough to account for the power and tenacity of these languages, where traditional linguistic explanation has failed.
Language and Power in Court
Author | : J. Cotterill |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2003-10-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780230006010 |
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Sociolinguists and lawyers will find insight and relevance in this account of the language of the courtroom, as exemplified in the criminal trial of O.J. Simpson. The trial is examined as the site of linguistic power and persuasion, focusing on the role of language in (re)presenting and (re)constructing the crime. In addition to the trial transcripts, the book draws on Simpson's post-arrest interview, media reports and post-trial interviews with jurors. The result is a unique multi-dimensional insight into the 'Trial of the Century' from a linguistic and discursive perspective.
The Language of Jury Trial
Author | : C. Heffer |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2005-11-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780230502888 |
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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.
Trial Language
Author | : Gail Stygall |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027250384 |
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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 the allocation of narrative speaking roles primarily to legal speakers in genres in which no sworn evidence is given, the suppression of narrative in ordinary witnesses, a set of restraints on witnesses' use of certain categories of evidentials, the legal topic originating in textual authority unknown to the lay participants, specific distribution of verb forms by legal genre, and a linguistic burden accompanying the legal burden of proof in the requirement that the lawyer of the moving party also use and explain technical legal terms to the jury at the same time as he or she presents evidence. All of these factors contribute to the incomprehensibility of legal discourse to lay auditors, resulting in the jury making their decision based on a commonsense script of the events precipitating the trial.The study concludes by arguing for a Foucauldian discourse analysis of institutional languages, a social theory powerful enough to account for the power and tenacity of these languages, where traditional linguistic explanation has failed.
Variation Versatility and Change in Sociolinguistics and Creole Studies
Author | : John Russell Rickford |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2019-01-24 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781107086135 |
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Demonstrates how data, methods and theories from sociolinguistics and creole studies synergize and mutually benefit each subfield.
Law and the Language of Identity
Author | : Gregory M. Matoesian |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Conduct of court proceedings |
ISBN | : 9780195123302 |
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Matoesian uses the notorious 1991 rape trial of William Kennedy Smith to provide an indepth analysis of language use and its role in that trial and the law more generally.
LANGUAGE ON TRIAL
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Author | : CHRISSIE. MAHER |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 8175342935 |
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