Deceptive ambiguity by police and prosecutors /
Ambiguity is commonly considered unintentional while deception is considered intentional. Here, Roger W. Shuy describes fifteen criminal cases in which police, prosecutors, and undercover agents used deceptive ambiguity with criminal suspects and defendants, many times giving evidence of being inten...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Oxford studies in language and law.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Ambiguity is commonly considered unintentional while deception is considered intentional. Here, Roger W. Shuy describes fifteen criminal cases in which police, prosecutors, and undercover agents used deceptive ambiguity with criminal suspects and defendants, many times giving evidence of being intentionally constructed through the manipulation of the speech events, schemas, agendas, speech acts, strategies, lexicon, and grammar. Although certain types of intentional deceptive ambiguity are central for successful undercover operations, the case examples in this book demonstrate how various type. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (262 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190669904 019066990X 9780190669911 0190669918 9780190669928 0190669926 |