《The Language of Jury Trial》是2005年11月Palgrave Macmillan出版的圖書，作者是Heffer, Chris。
基本介紹
- 中文名：The Language of Jury Trial
- 作者：Heffer, Chris
- 出版社：Palgrave Macmillan
- 出版時間：2005年11月
- ISBN：9781403942470
內容簡介
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. Careful analyses of genres such as witness examination and the judge's summing-up reveal a strategic tension between a desire to persuade the jury and the need to conform to legal constraints. The book also suggests ways of managing this tension linguistically to help, not hinder, the jury。
