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Publication details [#57764]

Conley, Robin. 2013. Living with the decision that someone will die: Linguistic distance and empathy in jurors' death penalty decisions. Language in Society 42 (5) : 503–526.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative style | courtroom | empathy | judgment | language use

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper discusses how physical and linguistic distance management in Texan death penalty trials, enables jurors to deny defendants compassion (by dehumanizing them), and, in turn, warrants their death sentencing decisions.