More Than (Just) Words : Legal and Non-Legal Narratives in the Courtroom and Beyond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Szczyrbak, Magdalena.

Series:

Foundations in Language and Law [FLL] Series

Foundations in Language and Law [FLL] Series ; v.14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judicial process.

Language and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Basel/Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 2025.

Summary:

This book explores the interplay between language and law, examining courtroom narratives and their construction through legal and non-legal perspectives. Edited by Magdalena Szczyrbak, it highlights how linguistic, cultural, and contextual factors shape judicial narratives, challenging traditional static views of legal language. Contributions analyze topics such as witness credibility, political conduct in trials, multimodal communication, and the semiotics of courtroom environments across different legal systems. The volume is intended for scholars and practitioners in legal linguistics, sociolinguistics, and law, offering insights into the dynamic, interactive processes of meaning negotiation in judicial settings. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgments

Contents

Foreword

Introduction: More than (just) words

Part I: (Just) words

Legal perspectives

Chapter 1 Metalanguage in the penalty phase of a capital trial: A study of two monologic genres

Chapter 2 Political discrimination or reasonable conduct? Motive-implicative discourse moves in a civil trial's closing arguments

Chapter 3 Legal-lay interaction and recontextualization in Swedish criminal proceedings

Non-legal perspectives

Chapter 4 . . .and I'm telling you honestly, I don't measure: Emotive reframing and evasiveness in expert testimony

Chapter 5 Navigating the linguistic complexity of cross-examination: The role of the witness intermediary for an autistic defendant

Chapter 6 Between semantics and pragmatics: Witnesses' credibility and the linguistic expression of the source of information in Italian criminal trials

Chapter 7 Identity construction in complainants' narratives in the investigative public hearings on the Nigerian Federal Capital Territory administration

Speech and gesture

Chapter 8 I wanna be somebody: Enacted reported thought in an actual jury deliberation

Chapter 9 Multimodal discursive authority of the judge: Analyzing the judge's interactions with courtroom participants in Chinese criminal trials

Image and architecture

Chapter 10 Allegories of justice in contemporary France: In search of a new paradigm

Chapter 11 Criminal law, court architecture, and the space of justice: Stakeholder perceptions of 'special' courts used in child sexual abuse trials in India

Index.

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ISBN:

3-11-143178-9

OCLC:

1521873521