Foreword

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments VII
3. Contents IX
4. Foreword XIII
5. Introduction: More than (just) words 1
6. Part I: (Just) words
7. Legal perspectives
8. Chapter 1 Metalanguage in the penalty phase of a capital trial: A study of two monologic genres 27
9. Chapter 2 Political discrimination or reasonable conduct? Motive-implicative discourse moves in a civil trial’s closing arguments 49
10. Chapter 3 Legal-lay interaction and recontextualization in Swedish criminal proceedings 73
11. Non-legal perspectives
12. Chapter 4 . . .and I’m telling you honestly, I don’t measure: Emotive reframing and evasiveness in expert testimony 99
13. Chapter 5 Navigating the linguistic complexity of cross-examination: The role of the witness intermediary for an autistic defendant 127
14. Chapter 6 Between semantics and pragmatics: Witnesses’ credibility and the linguistic expression of the source of information in Italian criminal trials 149
15. Chapter 7 Identity construction in complainants’ narratives in the investigative public hearings on the Nigerian Federal Capital Territory administration 185
16. Part II: More than (just) words
17. Speech and gesture
18. Chapter 8 I wanna be somebody: Enacted reported thought in an actual jury deliberation 213
19. Chapter 9 Multimodal discursive authority of the judge: Analyzing the judge’s interactions with courtroom participants in Chinese criminal trials 231
20. Image and architecture
21. Chapter 10 Allegories of justice in contemporary France: In search of a new paradigm 267
22. 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
23. Index 319