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Redefining Trial by Media
Towards a critical-forensic linguistic interface
Redefining Trial by Media: Towards a critical-forensic linguistic interface applies a range of linguistic models to recast trial by media not as a sensationalist and infrequent phenomenon, but as a systematic and routine process. Using critical discourse analysis and cognitive linguistic models, this book builds a Spectrum of Trial by Media which views juries in criminal trials as moulded by ideological media-made constructions of crime. The role of these media constructions is enhanced by the isolation levied on jurors by the linguistic composition of trial language, and reinforced by the language strategies of legal professionals in court. Critically deconstructing media portrayals of crime and forensically examining the language of criminal proceedings, this book offers a redefinition of trial by media which casts the role of the press as much more prevalent in the courtroom trial than is presently appreciated.
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 67] 2016. xiii, 325 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 13 June 2016
Published online on 13 June 2016
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Introduction | pp. ix–9
- Acknowledgements | pp. xi–11
- List of tables | pp. xiii–13
- Chapter 1. Defining the scope of the inquiry | pp. 1–43
- Chapter 2. Direct and enhanced trial by media | pp. 45–101
- Chapter 3. Media-made crime | pp. 103–164
- Chapter 4. Reinforced Trial by Media: Smuggled narratives in court | pp. 165–224
- Chapter 5. Reinforced Trial by Media: Evaluative key in court | pp. 225–284
- Chapter 6. Conclusion: Reconceiving the jury | pp. 285–305
- References
- Name index | pp. 319–321
- Subject index | pp. 323–325
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