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Publication details [#14276]

Kurzon, Dennis. 2001. The politeness of judges: American and English judicial behaviour. Journal of Pragmatics 33 (1) : 61–85.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
argumentation | legalese | mitigation | politeness | pragmatics
Language as a subject
English, American | English, British
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

It is found that American judicial verbal behavior differs from English judicial opinions, especially among American appellate judges.