Johnson, A (2014) 'Dr Shipman told you that ... ' The organising and synthesising power of quotation in judicial summing-up. Language and Communication, 36 (1). pp. 53-67. ISSN 0271-5309
Abstract
Judicial summing-up discourse is explored using a computer-assisted discourse studies approach (CADS) to investigate meaning in patterns of referring to and quoting the defendant. A small specialised corpus of 294,000 words, which forms the eleven days of summing-up in the Dr Harold Shipman murder trial, is created and used. Analysis focuses on the pragmatic effects of the metadiscursive and sensory verbs, refer, remind, summarise, look, read, and the most frequent and ‘key’ reporting verbs told and said. Results show how the judge’s recapitulation of the defendant’s words organises and synthesises the evidence for the jury, using the authority of quotation and judicial (re)organisation to make the jury question the contrasted material and to stimulate meaning-making and decision-making.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Language & Communication. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Corpus; Trial; Summing-up; Quoting; Authority; CADS |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of English (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 20 May 2016 15:07 |
Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2017 01:39 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2013.12.005 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.langcom.2013.12.005 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:90462 |