The Jury Summation as Speech Genre: An Ethnographic Study of What It Means to Thoes Who Use It
(Book #1 in the Pragmatics & Beyond New Series Series)
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The American courtroom trial is a speech situation. Everything occurs through the spoken word. The 'summation', as speech event embedded within the trial, which is the chronological and psychological culmination of it, is one of the few opportunities for the lawyer to communicate directly with jurors. But the speech genre summation involves preliminaries as well as the event itself; and it can affect the aftermath of the trial, for the decisions of...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1556190352
ISBN13:9781556190353
Release Date:January 1988
Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
Length:282 Pages
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