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The language of jury trial : a corpus-aided analysis of legal-lay discourse / Chris Heffer.

By:

Heffer, Chris [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005Description: xxi, 253 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1403942471
9781403942470

Subject(s):

Jury

DDC classification:

347.07014 22

LOC classification:

K213 .H44 2005
KD8400 .H44 2005x

Contents:

1. Legal-lay discourse -- 2. Coming into court -- 3. The trial as complex genre -- 4. The counsel as narrator -- 5. The counsel as subject -- 6. Directing the jury -- 7. (Re)viewing the case -- 8. Conclusion.

Review: "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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-238) and index.

"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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