TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wagner,Anne
AU  - Cheng,Le
TI  - Exploring courtroom discourse: the language of power and control 
T2  - Law, language and communication
SN  - 9781409423478 (hardback : alk. paper)
AV  - K213 .W337 2011
U1  - 347/.0504 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Farnham, Surrey, England, Burlington, VT
PB  - Ashgate
KW  - Law
KW  - Language
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: language, power and control in courtroom discourse; Anne Wagner and Le Cheng --; Understanding courtroom communication through cultural scripts; Kim McCaul --; Witnesses on trial: address and referring terms in U.S. cases; Sarah Dettenwanger --; (False) confessions become compelling at trial; Gillian Grebler --; The role of metadiscourse in counsels' questions; Silvia Cavalieri --; Constructing legal narratives: client-lawyer's stories; Flora Di Donato --; Some uses of magical images in law; Christine A. Corcos --; The construction of admissions of fault through American rules of evidence: speech, silence, and significance in the legal creation of liability; Janet Ainsworth --; The construction of truth in legal decision-making; Petrina Schiavi --; Hidden penalties faced by non-english speakers in the UK criminal justice system: an interpreting perspective; Roxana Rycroft --; Language alternation in Kenyan and Malaysian courts; Richard Powell and Maya David --; Place of arbitration in online proceedings as a simulacrum; Joanna Jemielniak
ER  -