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Publication details [#58479]

Sneijder, Petra. 2014. The embedding of reported speech in a rhetorical structure by prosecutors and defense lawyers in Dutch trials. Text & Talk 34 (4) : 467–490.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

argumentation | courtroom conversation | legalese | point of view | reported speech

Language as a subject

Dutch

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/TEXT/html

Annotation

Using conversation analysis and discursive psychology, this paper examines how prosecutors and defense lawyers frame and imbed direct quotations in a three stage rhetorical structure to submit a viewpoint in their closing arguments in Dutch trials.