Linguistic Evidence
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Linguistic Evidence

Language, Power, and Strategy in the Courtroom

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Linguistic Evidence

Language, Power, and Strategy in the Courtroom

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With the permission of a North Carolina court, more than 150 hours of courtroom speech were recorded for this study. These tapes provided a rich archive for a variety of different types of inquiry, including the ethnography of courtroom speech and social psychological experiments focused on effects of different modes of presenting information in courts of law. Four sets of linguistic variables and related experimental studies have constituted a major portion of the research: (1) "powerful" versus "powerless" speech; (2) hypercorrect versus formal speech; (3) narrative versus fragmented testimony, and (4) simultaneous speech by witnesses and lawyers. All four sets of studies focus on the central question of importance of form over content of testimony.

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Publisher
Academic Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9781483297712
Topic
Lingue e linguistica
Subtopic
Linguistica

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Linguistic Evidence
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. PREFACE
  7. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  8. Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION
  9. Chapter 2. THE NATURE OF LEGAL LANGUAGE
  10. Chapter 3. LEGAL ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION
  11. Chapter 4. ETHNOGRAPHY AND EXPERIMENTATION
  12. Chapter 5. SPEECH STYLES IN THE COURTROOM
  13. Chapter 6. CONTROLLING THE EFFECTS OF PRESENTATIONAL STYLE
  14. Chapter 7. CONCLUSIONS
  15. Appendix 1: TRANSCRIPTS OF "POWERFUL" AND "POWERLESS" STYLES
  16. Appendix 2: TRANSCRIPTS OF NARRATIVE AND FRAGMENTED STYLES
  17. Appendix 3: TRANSCRIPTS OF HYPERCORRECT AND FORMAL STYLES
  18. Appendix 4: TRANSCRIPTS OF OVERLAPPING AND NONOVERLAPPING SPEECH
  19. REFERENCES
  20. INDEX