More than (Just) Words
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Edited by:
Magdalena Szczyrbak
About this book
This edited collection illuminates the mechanisms involved in courtroom reality construction and the ways in which trial narratives are created and legal facts established. It covers a wide range of jurisdictions and legal procedures spanning five continents. In addition to explaining how courtroom actors utilise words to craft their narratives within institutional constraints, it draws attention to the effect the gestural, visual and material resources have on the discursive shaping of the judicial process. The book highlights the intersection of legal and non-legal perspectives in judicial and related settings: those of judges, prosecutors, attorneys, complainants, lay witnesses, forensic experts, witness intermediaries and jurors. Going beyond (just) words, the volume elucidates the processes of meaning-making and the discourse practices which underlie asymmetrical interaction in judicial settings. Informed by diverse theoretical frameworks, the book will appeal to legal linguists and discourse analysts studying institutional communication, as well as legal practitioners engaged in trial practice.
Author / Editor information
Magdalena Szczyrbak, Jagiellonian University, Poland & University of Pardubice, Czechia.
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments
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Contents
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Foreword
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Introduction: More than (just) words
1 - Part I: (Just) words
- Legal perspectives
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Chapter 1 Metalanguage in the penalty phase of a capital trial: A study of two monologic genres
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Chapter 2 Political discrimination or reasonable conduct? Motive-implicative discourse moves in a civil trial’s closing arguments
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Chapter 3 Legal-lay interaction and recontextualization in Swedish criminal proceedings
73 - Non-legal perspectives
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Chapter 4 . . .and I’m telling you honestly, I don’t measure: Emotive reframing and evasiveness in expert testimony
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Chapter 5 Navigating the linguistic complexity of cross-examination: The role of the witness intermediary for an autistic defendant
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Chapter 6 Between semantics and pragmatics: Witnesses’ credibility and the linguistic expression of the source of information in Italian criminal trials
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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
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Chapter 8 I wanna be somebody: Enacted reported thought in an actual jury deliberation
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Chapter 9 Multimodal discursive authority of the judge: Analyzing the judge’s interactions with courtroom participants in Chinese criminal trials
231 - Image and architecture
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Chapter 10 Allegories of justice in contemporary France: In search of a new paradigm
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Chapter 11 Criminal law, court architecture, and the space of justice: Stakeholder perceptions of ‘special’ courts used in child sexual abuse trials in India
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Index
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