Publications

Publication details [#65488]

Bartley, Leanne Victoria. 2018. “Justice demands that you find this man not guilty”: A transitivity analysis of the closing arguments of a rape case that resulted in a wrongful conviction. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 28 (3) : 480–495.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

argument | critical discourse analysis | judgment | legalese | rape

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/ijal

Annotation

Courtroom language is famed for being a strategic and potent way of manipulation. This transitivity assay handles the prosecution and defence attorneys's closing arguments of a rape case that ended in an incorrect condemnation.