32.1445, Books: Multimodal Conduct in the Law: Matoesian, Gilbert

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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2021 18:18:42
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: Multimodal Conduct in the Law: Matoesian, Gilbert

 


Title: Multimodal Conduct in the Law 
Subtitle: Language, Gesture and Materiality in Legal Interaction 
Series Title: Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics 32  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/discourse-analysis/multimodal-conduct-law-language-gesture-and-materiality-legal-interaction?format=PB 


Author: Gregory Matoesian
Author: Kristin Enola Gilbert

Paperback: ISBN:  9781108402866 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 33.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108402866 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 25.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108402866 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 30.33


Abstract:

The study of language and law has seen explosive growth in the past
twenty-five years. Research on police interrogations, trial examination, jury
deliberation, plea bargains, same sex marriage, to name a few, has shown the
central role of written and oral forms of language in the construction of
legal meaning. However, there is another side of language that has rarely been
analyzed in legal settings: the role of gesture and how it integrates with
language in the law. This is the first book-length investigation of language
and multimodal conduct in the law. Using audio-video tapes from a famous rape
trial, Matoesian and Gilbert examine legal identity and impression management
in the sociocultural performance of precedent, expert testimony, closing
argument, exhibits, reported speech and trial examination. Drawing on insights
from Jakobson and Silverstein, the authors show how the poetic function
inheres not only in language but multimodal conduct generally. Their analysis
opens up new empirical territory for both forensic linguistics and gesture
studies.
 



Acknowledgements; List of transcription conventions; Introduction; 1.
Multimodal conduct: what is it?; 2. Co-constructing expert identity; 3. The
transformation of evidence into precedent; 4. Negotiating intertextuality; 5.
Motives and accusations; 6. Nailing down an answer; 7. Exhibits, tapes, and
inconsistency; 8. Material mediated gestures; 9. Rhythmic gestures and
semanticity; 10. Conclusion; References; Index.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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