Language on Trial - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language on Trial write by Plain English Campaign. This book was released on 1996. Language on Trial available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Language and Power in Court
Language and Power in Court - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language and Power in Court write by J. Cotterill. This book was released on 2003-10-14. Language and Power in Court available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Trial Language
Trial Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Trial Language write by Gail Stygall. This book was released on 1994-11-10. Trial Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Language of Jury Trial
The Language of Jury Trial - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Language of Jury Trial write by C. Heffer. This book was released on 2005-11-01. The Language of Jury Trial available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Variation, Versatility and Change in Sociolinguistics and Creole Studies
Variation, Versatility and Change in Sociolinguistics and Creole Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Variation, Versatility and Change in Sociolinguistics and Creole Studies write by John Russell Rickford. This book was released on 2019-01-24. Variation, Versatility and Change in Sociolinguistics and Creole Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Demonstrates how data, methods and theories from sociolinguistics and creole studies synergize and mutually benefit each subfield.
