Trial Language: Differential discourse processing and discursive formation
Gail Stygall
This study of Anglo-American legal discourse is the first comprehensive discourse analysis of American legal language in its prototypical setting, the trial by jury. With ethnographic data gathered in a civil jury trial, the book compares the discourse processing of the legal participants and the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 26] 1994. xii, 226 pp.