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

Name: The Language of Jury Trial : A Corpus-Aided Analysis of Legal-Lay Discourse / by C. Heffer.
ISBN: 9780230502888

Heffer, C.,; SpringerLink (Online service)

doi:10.1057/9780230502888

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

Heffer, C., author.; SpringerLink (Online service)

2005

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Heffer, C., author.

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

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1st ed. 2005.

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London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

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XXI, 253 p. online resource

Summary

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.

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English