The Language of Jury Trial: A Corpus-Aided Linguistic Analysis of Legal-Lay Discourse

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Tables, Figures and Texts......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Conventions......Page 15
Introduction......Page 16
Part I: Communication in Jury Trial......Page 24
Discourse......Page 26
Professional discourse......Page 33
Cultural-cognitive modes......Page 40
The modes and discourse......Page 45
The modes and legal-lay discourse......Page 52
Conclusion......Page 58
Introduction: the courtroom......Page 60
Doors into court......Page 62
Communication in court......Page 69
The transcripts and representation......Page 75
The corpora and representativeness......Page 81
Conclusion......Page 86
Perspectives on the trial......Page 88
The trial as ritual......Page 95
The opening address and the crime story......Page 98
Witness examination: the trial as contest......Page 100
The closing arguments and the trial story......Page 107
Summing-up and beyond: the trial as judgement......Page 110
Conclusion......Page 114
Part II: Witness Examination......Page 116
Free witness narrative......Page 118
\'Showing\' and \'telling\' in examination-in-chief......Page 125
Narrating through the witness......Page 133
Narrating despite the witness: cross-examination......Page 143
Conclusion......Page 147
Introduction......Page 149
Subjectivity and the cross-examiner......Page 150
The expression of judgement......Page 154
Projecting one\'s case......Page 158
Evaluative pointing......Page 164
Evaluative peaks......Page 173
Conclusion......Page 175
Part III: The Judge\'s Summing-up......Page 178
Introduction......Page 180
Helpers and opponents......Page 181
The summing-up and narrative accommodation......Page 184
Narrativization and categorization in the proof directions......Page 189
Knowledge, belief and comprehension......Page 198
Conclusion......Page 203
Introduction......Page 205
The review of evidence and judicial perspective......Page 206
Language and judicial comment......Page 208
Linguistic strategies in judicial comment......Page 211
Perspective and directionality......Page 224
Conclusion......Page 230
Review of the evidence: legal-lay discourse in jury trial......Page 231
Deliberation: some implications for jury trial......Page 235
Verdict: a bridge between law and life......Page 241
Appendix 1 Overview of Corpora......Page 243
Appendix 2 EXAMINATIONS Copora......Page 244
Appendix 3 SUMMING-UP Corpus......Page 247
Notes......Page 249
References......Page 253
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M......Page 270
N......Page 271
P......Page 272
R......Page 273
S......Page 274
T......Page 275
W......Page 276