Drawing on representative corpora of transcripts from over 100 English criminal jury trials, this stimulating new book explores the nature of 'legal-lay discourse', or the language used by legal professionals before lay juries.
CHRIS HEFFER is a lecturer in the Centre for Language and Communication Research at Cardiff University, Wales, where he teaches forensic linguistics and language and culture.
List of Tables & Figures Acknowledgements Conventions Introduction PART 1: COMMUNICATION IN JURY TRIAL Legal-Lay Discourse Coming into Court The Trial as Complex Genre PART 2: WITNESS EXAMINATION The Counsel as Narrator The Counsel as Subject PART 3: THE JUDGE'S SUMMING-UP Directing the Jury (Re)Viewing the Case Conclusion Appendices Notes References Index
