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Author Walter, Bettyruth.

Title The jury summation as speech genre : an ethnographic study of what it means to those who use it / Bettyruth Walter.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1988.

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 264 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 1
Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 1.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-259) and indexes.
Contents THE JURY SUMMATION AS SPEECH GENRE; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Abstract; Table of contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Tables; 1 .Introduction; SECTION1: The Sender; SECTION 2: The Observer; SECTION3: The Receiver; APPENDICES; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SUBJECT INDEX; ATTORNEY INDEX.
Summary The American courtroom trial is a speech situation. Everything occurs through the spoken word. The summation', as speech event embedded within the trial, which is the chronological and psychological culmination of it, is one of the few opportunities for the lawyer to communicate directly with jurors. But the speech genre summation involves preliminaries as well as the event itself; and it can affect the aftermath of the trial, for the decisions of the jurors may be influenced by this discourse. This ethnographic study considers the summation from three perspectives: that of the producer, from t.
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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: Walter, Bettyruth. Jury summation as speech genre. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1988 1556190344 (DLC) 88010125 (OCoLC)17807379
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