The Language of Jury Trial

CHRIS HEFFER is a lecturer in the Centre for Language and Communication Research at Cardiff University, Wales, where he teaches forensic linguistics and language and culture.

List of Tables & Figures Acknowledgements Conventions Introduction PART 1: COMMUNICATION IN JURY TRIAL Legal-Lay Discourse Coming into Court The Trial as Complex Genre PART 2: WITNESS EXAMINATION The Counsel as Narrator The Counsel as Subject PART 3: THE JUDGE'S SUMMING-UP Directing the Jury (Re)Viewing the Case Conclusion Appendices Notes References Index