Forensic rhetoric : the force of closing arguments / Susanna Shelton Clason.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clason, Susanna Shelton.

Series:

Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)

Criminal justice : recent scholarship

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Summation (Law)--United States.

Summation (Law).

Forensic oratory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

El Paso, Tex. : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2010.

Language Note:

English

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

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-154) and index.

ISBN:

9781593325503

1593325509

OCLC:

732955761