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
Chris Heffer, Cardiff University) Heffer, Chris (Reader in Linguistics in the School of English, Communication, and Philosophy, Reader in Linguistics in the School of English, Communication, and Philosophy, HEFFER, Heffer
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Chris Heffer, Chris Heffer, Frances Rock, John Conley, Cardiff University) Heffer, Chris (Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Cardiff University) Rock, Frances (Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Conley, John (Professor of Law, Professor of Law
Chris Heffer, Cardiff University) Heffer, Chris (Reader in Linguistics in the School of English, Communication, and Philosophy, Reader in Linguistics in the School of English, Communication, and Philosophy