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Publication details [#11887]

Luchjenbroers, June. 1997. 'In Your Own Words...': Questions and Answers in a Supreme Court Trial. Journal of Pragmatics 27 (4) : 477–503. 27 pp.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

courtroom conversation | dialogue | question-answer sequence

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

The investigation of barrister questioning and witness answering strategies indicated that the former is mainly a function of the presumed sympathies of the witnesses, while the latter communicates very little of the crime narrative to the jury.