32.289, Books: Confronting the Death Penalty: Riner

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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 16:40:47
From:  Oxford University Press [humanitiesmarketing at oup.com]
Subject: Confronting the Death Penalty: Riner

 


Title: Confronting the Death Penalty 
Subtitle: How Language Influences Jurors in Capital Cases 
Series Title: Oxford Studies in Language and Law  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/confronting-the-death-penalty-9780197545546?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Author: Robin Conley Riner

Paperback: ISBN:  9780197545546 Pages: 256 Price: U.S. $ 24.95


Abstract:

Drawing on ethnographic and qualitative linguistic methods, this book explores
the means through which language helps to make death penalty decisions
possible - how specific linguistic choices mediate and restrict jurors',
attorneys', and judges' actions and experiences while serving and reflecting
on capital trials.

The analysis draws on fifteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in diverse
counties across Texas, including participant observation in four capital
trials and post-verdict interviews with the jurors who decided those cases.
Given the impossibility of access to actual capital jury deliberations, this
integration of methods aims to provide the clearest possible window into
jurors' decision-making. Using methods from linguistic anthropology,
conversation analysis, and multi-modal discourse analysis, Conley analyzes
interviews, trial talk, and written legal language to reveal a variety of
communicative practices through which jurors dehumanize defendants and thus
judge them to be deserving of death.

By focusing on how language can both facilitate and stymie empathic
encounters, the book addresses a conflict inherent to death penalty trials:
jurors literally face defendants during trial and then must distort, diminish,
or negate these face-to-face interactions in order to sentence those same
defendants to death. The book reveals that jurors cite legal ideologies of
rational, dispassionate decision-making - conveyed in the form of
authoritative legal language - when negotiating these moral conflicts. By
investigating the interface between experiential and linguistic aspects of
legal decision-making, the book breaks new ground in studies of law and
language, language and psychology, and the death penalty.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis


Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=150414




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