TY  - BOOK
AU  - Heffer,Chris
TI  - The language of jury trial: a corpus-aided analysis of legal-lay discourse 
SN  - 1403942471
AV  - K213 .H44 2005
U1  - 347.07014 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Jury
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-238) and index; 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
N2  - "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
ER  -