LINGUISTIC EVIDENCEPDF电子书下载

1 INTRODUCTION 1

The Importance of Form in Language 1

Language Strategy 5

Language and Justice 10

The Study of Courtroom Language 11

2 THE NATURE OF LEGAL LANGUAGE 15

Written Legal Language 16

Spoken Legal Language 23

3 LEGAL ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION 31

Legal Tacticians 31

The Courts 38

The Law, by John M.Conley 41

4 ETHNOGRAPHY AND EXPERIMENTATION 51

Deriving the Research Questions 53

Specific Procedures 56

5 SPEECH S TYLES IN THE COURTROOM 61

Powerful versus Powerless Speech 61

Narrative versus Fragn-emted Testimony Styles 76

Hypercorrect Testimony Style 83

Interruptions and Simuhaneous Speech 87

6 CONTROLLING THE EFFECTS OF PRESEN TAT ONAL STYLE 93

Attempts to Control Style Effects 93

Interpretation and the Management of Style 97