Wagner, Anne,  1968- <br/><br/>
Exploring courtroom discourse :  the language of power and control / 
by Anne Wagner and Le Cheng. 
 - Farnham, Surrey, England ;  Burlington, VT :  Ashgate,  c2011. 
 - p. cm. 
 - Law, language and communication .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: language, power and control in courtroom discourse /  Understanding courtroom communication through cultural scripts /  Witnesses on trial: address and referring terms in U.S. cases /  (False) confessions become compelling at trial /  The role of metadiscourse in counsels' questions /  Constructing legal narratives: client-lawyer's stories /  Some uses of magical images in law /  The construction of admissions of fault through American rules of evidence: speech, silence, and significance in the legal creation of liability /  The construction of truth in legal decision-making /  Hidden penalties faced by non-english speakers in the UK criminal justice system: an interpreting perspective /  Language alternation in Kenyan and Malaysian courts /  Place of arbitration in online proceedings as a simulacrum /  Anne Wagner and Le Cheng --  Kim McCaul --  Sarah Dettenwanger --  Gillian Grebler --  Silvia Cavalieri --  Flora Di Donato --  Christine A. Corcos --  Janet Ainsworth --  Petrina Schiavi --  Roxana Rycroft --  Richard Powell and Maya David --  Joanna Jemielniak. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781409423478 (hardback : alk. paper) 9781409423485 (ebook) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Law--Language.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>K213  / .W337 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>347/.0504