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language, power, and strategy in the courtroom
With the permission of a North Carolina court, more than 150 hours of courtroom speech were recorded for this study. These tapes provided a rich archive for a variety of different types of inquiry, including the ethnography of courtroom speech and social psychological experiments focused on effects of different modes of presenting information in courts of law. Four sets of linguistic variables and related experimental studies have constituted a major portion of the research: (1) "powerful" versus "powerless" speech; (2) hypercorrect versus formal speech; (3) narrative versus fragmented testimony, and (4) simultaneous speech by witnesses and lawyers. All four sets of studies focus on the central question of importance of form over content of testimony.
Front Cover; Linguistic Evidence; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION; The Importance of Form in Language; Language Strategy; Language and Justice; The Study of Courtroom Language; Chapter 2. THE NATURE OF LEGAL LANGUAGE; Written Legal Language; Spoken Legal Language; Chapter 3. LEGAL ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION; Legal Tacticians; The Courts; The Law; Chapter 4. ETHNOGRAPHY AND EXPERIMENTATION; Deriving the Research Questions; Specific Procedures; Chapter 5. SPEECH STYLES IN THE COURTROOM.
Powerful versus Powerless SpeechNarrative versus Fragmented Testimony Styles; Hypercorrect Testimony Style; Interruptions and Simultaneous Speech; Chapter 6. CONTROLLING THE EFFECTS OF PRESENTATIONAL STYLE; Attempts to Control Style Effects; Interpretation and the Management of Style; Chapter 7. CONCLUSIONS; Implications for the Law; Implications for Social Science; Further Questions; Appendix 1: TRANSCRIPTS OF ""POWERFUL"" AND ""POWERLESS"" STYLES; Powerless Style (Female Witness); Powerful Style (Female Witness); Appendix 2: TRANSCRIPTS OF NARRATIVE AND FRAGMENTED STYLES; Fragmented Style.
Narrative StyleAppendix 3: TRANSCRIPTS OF HYPERCORRECT AND FORMAL STYLES; Hypercorrect Style; Formal Style; Appendix 4: TRANSCRIPTS OF OVERLAPPING AND NONOVERLAPPING SPEECH; Nonoverlapping Style; Overlapping Style-Lawyer Dominates; Overlapping Style-Witness Dominates; REFERENCES; Cases; Books and Articles; INDEX.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-187) and index.