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Cover Page
EXPLORING COURTROOM DISCOURSE
Law, Language and Communication
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Foreword: Power of and to Language in Law Deborah Cao
1 Language, Power and Control in Courtroom Discourse
PART I POWER AND CONTROL IN LANGUAGE
2 Understanding Courtroom Communication through Cultural Scripts
3 Witnesses on Trial: Address and Referring Terms in US Cases
4 (False) Confessions Become Compelling at Trial
5 The Role of Metadiscourse in Counsels’ Questions
6 Constructing Legal Narratives: Client-lawyers’ Stories
PART II POWER AND CONTROL BEHIND LANGUAGE
7 Magical Images in Law
8 The Construction of Admissions of Fault through American Rules of Evidence: Speech, Silence and Significance in the Legal Creation of Liability
9 The Construction of Truth in Legal Decision-making
10 Hidden Penalties Faced by Non-English Speakers in the UK Criminal Justice System: An Interpreting Perspective
11 Language Alternation in Kenyan and Malaysian Courts
12 The Place of Arbitration in Online Proceedings as a Simulacrum
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