Introduction

[Phil Gaines]

Georgina,

You should be able to get your hands on the journal Social Semiotics, since
it's published in Australia.  In 6:2 is an article of mine dealing with the
grammar of credibility assessment in the Hill/Thomas hearings.

In my diss, I look at how courtroom attorneys create representations through
the questions they ask.  I've discovered that this is something that has
only been glanced at in the discourse analytic literature on courtroom
language.

Have you seen Peter Tiersma's new book _Legal Language_, published by
University of Chicago Press?  A nice primer.

Phil

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>From: Georgina Heydon <g.heydon at LINGUISTICS.UNIMELB.EDU.AU>
>To: DISCOURS at LINGUIST.LDC.UPENN.EDU
>Subject: Re: Introduction
>Date: Mon, Jan 25, 1999, 11:48 PM
>

>Phil,
>
>I'm working in the area of language and the law myself - my PhD thesis is a
>critical discourse analysis of police interviews with suspects.  I would
>love to hear more about your dissertation.  Do you have a paper you would
>be willing to send me?
>
>Georgina
>
>PS: Sorry about the time delay in responding to your original intro - I've
>been camping in the glorious Australian alps!
>
>
>Georgina Heydon
>Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
>University of Melbourne
>Parkville   Victoria    3052
>Australia
>
>Ph: 61 3 9344 5488
>
>email: g.heydon at linguistics.unimelb.edu.au
>
>
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>> From: Phil Gaines <gaines at ENGLISH.MONTANA.EDU>
>> To: DISCOURS at LINGUIST.LDC.UPENN.EDU
>> Subject: Introduction
>> Date: Friday, 22 January 1999 4:12
>>
>> Introduction
>>
>> I've just joined Discours.  I'm an assistant professor of English at
>> Montana State University in Bozeman, having recently completed my PhD at
>> the University of Washington in Seattle.  My area of specialization is
>> legal discourse, specifically the language of the courtroom.  My
>> dissertation deals with attorney questions as representations of reality.
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------
>> Phil Gaines
>> Assistant Professor of English
>> Montana State University
>> Wilson Hall 2-176
>> Bozeman, MT  59717
>


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