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Author Clason, Susanna Shelton.

Title Forensic Rhetoric : the Force of Closing Arguments.

Publication Info. El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (169 pages).
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Series Criminal Justice: Recent Scholarship
Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
Summary Clason focuses on the closing argument rhetorical practices of five trial attorneys. She seeks to 1) learn how participants utilized rhetorical strategies in closing argument; 2) better understand how they selected those strategies; and 3) examine why they employed the strategies they did through the central categories of ethos, logos, and pathos. Study participants' awareness and consideration of the classical speaker, audience, and message Aristotelian speech situation as well as the power of persuasion demonstrates the continued influence of rhetoric in courts and rhetorical nature of legal.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-154) and index.
Contents The power of legal rhetoric -- Research design and analytic strategy -- Ethos : a rhetoric of impression -- Logos : the rhetoric of reasoning -- Pathos : a rhetoric of engagement -- Conclusions.
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Subject Summation (Law) -- United States.
Summation (Law)
United States.
Forensic oratory.
Forensic oratory.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9781593323837
ISBN 9781593325503 (electronic book)
1593325509 (electronic book)
9781593323837 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
1593323832 (hardback ; alkaline paper)