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Publication details [#39315]

Chang, Yanrong. 2004. Courtroom Questioning as a Culturally Situated Persuasive Genre of Talk. Discourse & Society 15 (5) : 705–722.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
courtroom conversation | genre | language and culture | persuasion | question
Language as a subject
Chinese
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications
Journal WWW
www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper deals with the cultural specificity of questions and questioning as a persuasive genre in Chinese criminal courtrooms.