Linguistic Evidence: Language, Power and Strategy in the Courtroom (Studies in Law & Social Control) - Hardcover

O'Barr, William M.

 
9780125235204: Linguistic Evidence: Language, Power and Strategy in the Courtroom (Studies in Law & Social Control)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0125235208 ISBN 13: 9780125235204
Publisher: Academic Press Inc, 1982

Synopsis

This study draws on over 150 hours of courtroom speech recorded in a North Carolina court. It looks at the ethnography of courtroom speech, and contains social psychological experiments focused on the effects of different modes of presenting information in courts of law. The research involves four major sets of linguistic variables: "powerful" versus "powerless" speech; hypercorrect versus formal speech; narrative versus fragmented testimony; and simultaneous speech by witnesses and lawyers. All these studies emphasize the importance of form over content of testimony.

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Publisher
Academic Press Inc
Publication date
1982
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0125235208
ISBN 13 
9780125235204
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
192

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