Exploring courtroom discourse
Subtitle: the language of power and control
By: by Anne Wagner and Le Cheng
Contributors: Cheng, Le
Series: Law, language and communication
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781409423478; 9781409423485
Subjects: Judicial process; Language; Conduct of court proceedings; Law; Methodology; Semantics (Law)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: language, power and control in courtroom discourse /; title: Anne Wagner and Le Cheng; title: Understanding courtroom communication through cultural scripts  -- Kim McCaul; title: Witnesses on trial: address and referring terms in U.S. cases  -- Sarah Dettenwanger; title: (False) confessions become compelling at trial  -- Gillian Grebler; title: The role of metadiscourse in counsels' questions  -- Silvia Cavalieri; title: Constructing legal narratives: client-lawyer's stories  -- Flora Di Donato; title: Some uses of magical images in law  -- Christine A. Corcos; title: The construction of admissions of fault through American rules of evidence: speech, silence, and significance in the legal creation of liability  -- Janet Ainsworth; title: The construction of truth in legal decision-making  -- Petrina Schiavi; title: Hidden penalties faced by non-english speakers in the UK criminal justice system: an interpreting perspective  -- Roxana Rycroft; title: Language alternation in Kenyan and Malaysian courts  -- Richard Powell and Maya David; title: Place of arbitration in online proceedings as a simulacrum -- Joanna Jemielniak.