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

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...

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Main Author:	Heffer, Chris (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Subjects:	Linguistics. Criminal Law. Criminology & Criminal Justice. Fundamentals of Law. Sociolinguistics. Criminal law. Criminology. Law > Philosophy. Law. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book