Chapter 8 I wanna be somebody: Enacted reported thought in an actual jury deliberation
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Gregory Matoesian
Abstract
This study analyzes how a juror in an actual jury deliberation brings cross-modal or multimodal poetic resources to bear on the enactment of reported thought attributed to a defendant in a criminal case, a dramatic multimodal process designed to persuade other jurors to acquit the defendant. My goal is to show how co-speech gestures, material objects, and other modal resources reveal thinking processes in motion and thus turn putative mental states into visible bodily conduct. Rather than follow orthodox jury research that relies on abstract story or persuasion models and exogenous outcome variables like roles, demographic characteristics, gender, socioeconomic status, race and so on, I analyze deliberation in the wild as it were and demonstrate how a naturalistic approach yields a penetrating understanding of the jury during construction and co-construction of legal context.
Abstract
This study analyzes how a juror in an actual jury deliberation brings cross-modal or multimodal poetic resources to bear on the enactment of reported thought attributed to a defendant in a criminal case, a dramatic multimodal process designed to persuade other jurors to acquit the defendant. My goal is to show how co-speech gestures, material objects, and other modal resources reveal thinking processes in motion and thus turn putative mental states into visible bodily conduct. Rather than follow orthodox jury research that relies on abstract story or persuasion models and exogenous outcome variables like roles, demographic characteristics, gender, socioeconomic status, race and so on, I analyze deliberation in the wild as it were and demonstrate how a naturalistic approach yields a penetrating understanding of the jury during construction and co-construction of legal context.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Acknowledgments VII
- Contents IX
- Foreword XIII
- Introduction: More than (just) words 1
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Part I: (Just) words
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Legal perspectives
- Chapter 1 Metalanguage in the penalty phase of a capital trial: A study of two monologic genres 27
- Chapter 2 Political discrimination or reasonable conduct? Motive-implicative discourse moves in a civil trial’s closing arguments 49
- Chapter 3 Legal-lay interaction and recontextualization in Swedish criminal proceedings 73
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Non-legal perspectives
- Chapter 4 . . .and I’m telling you honestly, I don’t measure: Emotive reframing and evasiveness in expert testimony 99
- Chapter 5 Navigating the linguistic complexity of cross-examination: The role of the witness intermediary for an autistic defendant 127
- Chapter 6 Between semantics and pragmatics: Witnesses’ credibility and the linguistic expression of the source of information in Italian criminal trials 149
- Chapter 7 Identity construction in complainants’ narratives in the investigative public hearings on the Nigerian Federal Capital Territory administration 185
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Part II: More than (just) words
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Speech and gesture
- Chapter 8 I wanna be somebody: Enacted reported thought in an actual jury deliberation 213
- Chapter 9 Multimodal discursive authority of the judge: Analyzing the judge’s interactions with courtroom participants in Chinese criminal trials 231
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Image and architecture
- Chapter 10 Allegories of justice in contemporary France: In search of a new paradigm 267
- Chapter 11 Criminal law, court architecture, and the space of justice: Stakeholder perceptions of ‘special’ courts used in child sexual abuse trials in India 293
- Index 319
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Acknowledgments VII
- Contents IX
- Foreword XIII
- Introduction: More than (just) words 1
-
Part I: (Just) words
-
Legal perspectives
- Chapter 1 Metalanguage in the penalty phase of a capital trial: A study of two monologic genres 27
- Chapter 2 Political discrimination or reasonable conduct? Motive-implicative discourse moves in a civil trial’s closing arguments 49
- Chapter 3 Legal-lay interaction and recontextualization in Swedish criminal proceedings 73
-
Non-legal perspectives
- Chapter 4 . . .and I’m telling you honestly, I don’t measure: Emotive reframing and evasiveness in expert testimony 99
- Chapter 5 Navigating the linguistic complexity of cross-examination: The role of the witness intermediary for an autistic defendant 127
- Chapter 6 Between semantics and pragmatics: Witnesses’ credibility and the linguistic expression of the source of information in Italian criminal trials 149
- Chapter 7 Identity construction in complainants’ narratives in the investigative public hearings on the Nigerian Federal Capital Territory administration 185
-
Part II: More than (just) words
-
Speech and gesture
- Chapter 8 I wanna be somebody: Enacted reported thought in an actual jury deliberation 213
- Chapter 9 Multimodal discursive authority of the judge: Analyzing the judge’s interactions with courtroom participants in Chinese criminal trials 231
-
Image and architecture
- Chapter 10 Allegories of justice in contemporary France: In search of a new paradigm 267
- Chapter 11 Criminal law, court architecture, and the space of justice: Stakeholder perceptions of ‘special’ courts used in child sexual abuse trials in India 293
- Index 319
