Redefining trial by media : towards a critical-forensic linguistic interface / Simon Statham, Queen's University Belfast.
2016
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Title
Redefining trial by media : towards a critical-forensic linguistic interface / Simon Statham, Queen's University Belfast.
Published
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]
Call Number
K5001.5 .S73 2016
ISBN
9789027206589 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9027206589 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9789027266828 (E-Book)
9027206589 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9789027266828 (E-Book)
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viii, 325 pages ; 25 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)945804266
Note
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral - Queen's University Belfast, 2014)--Acknowledgements.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-317) and indexes.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Statham, Simon author. Redefining trial by media. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016 9789027266828 (DLC) 2016015746
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Table of Contents
Introduction
ix
Acknowledgements
xi
List of tables
xiii
ch. 1
Defining the scope of the inquiry
1
1.1.
Introduction
1
1.1.1.
Trial by media: First impressions
1
1.1.2.
Trial by media: New progressions
3
1.1.3.
Outline of book
5
1.2.
Trial by media: Principles of law
6
1.2.1.
Systems of the law
6
1.2.2.
laws: A fair trial guaranteed?
8
Europe in the world
8
Great Britain
9
United States
15
1.3.
Trial by media: The realities of language
18
1.3.1.
operation of power
18
1.3.2.
Discourse and ideology
21
1.3.3.
Institutional news discourse
25
1.3.4.
Institution of the law
35
1.3.5.
critical-forensic interface in action
38
1.4.
Conclusion
42
ch. 2
Direct and enhanced trial by media
45
2.1.
Introduction: Linguistic `isolators' and trial by media
45
2.2.
Role of the jury: `Community values' in court
47
2.2.1.
Selection of the jury
49
2.2.2.
law/facts distinction: Jurors as `triers of fact'
51
2.3.
Jurors in the courtroom: Towards a `framework of isolation'
55
2.3.1.
Direct trial by media: Accommodation and encouragement of common sense
55
2.3.2.
Linguistic and discursive isolators
57
Isolator of silence: The speechless world of the jury
58
language of jury instruction(s): The instruction isolator (i)
59
Technical language isolator
64
Evidential isolator
71
Narrative structure isolator
78
instruction isolator (ii)
83
2.4.
Enhanced trial by media: Isolated jurors in court
91
2.4.1.
(Mis)conceptions of crime: The Jury's criteria
91
2.4.2.
Recourse to these criteria: `World knowledge' and its construction
93
2.4.3.
process of understanding: `World knowledge' in operation
94
2.5.
Conclusion
101
ch. 3
Media-made crime
103
3.1.
Introduction
103
3.1.1.
Media discourses as the makers of crime
103
3.1.2.
Outline of chapter
104
3.2.
"Mock juries": Researching around the restrictions
106
3.3.
Filling the gap: Media-made crime
113
3.3.1.
Crime in the emerging media
114
3.3.2.
Clarified: The Spectrum of Trial by Media
115
3.4.
critical focus: Data and methodology
123
3.4.1.
Crucial elements of the critical focus
124
3.4.2.
Choice of data for analysis
127
3.5.
Crime in the media: The analytical link
132
Transitivity in portrayals of Assault
132
Transitivity in portrayals of Burglary
143
Analysing Semiotic choices in portrayals of Robbery
150
Murder in the headlines: Critical and corpus analysis combined
157
3.6.
Conclusion: Ideologies from the newsroom to the courtroom
162
ch. 4
Reinforced Trial by Media: Smuggled narratives in court
165
4.1.
Introduction
165
4.1.1.
Towards Reinforced Trial by Media: The story so far
165
4.1.2.
Reinforced Trial by Media: Enter the advocate
166
4.1.3.
Outline of chapter
169
4.2.
Legal professionals at trial
169
4.2.1.
Strategic tensions: Theory versus practice
172
4.2.2.
Discourse of the advocate: Legal-lay discourse
174
4.3.
Smuggled information: Ideological associations
178
4.3.1.
Smuggled information and cognitive constructions
178
4.3.2.
Complementary cognitive models: Reinforced Trial by Media reinforced
184
4.3.3.
further model for analysis: Idealised Cognitive Models
186
4.3.4.
ideological ICM: Prostitution in the press
188
4.3.5.
Rape ICM: Newsroom and courtroom
196
4.4.
Rape in the newsroom reinforced in the courtroom
206
4.4.1.
Party Girl
207
4.4.2.
No Prior Knowledge
212
4.4.3.
Chose Not to Go Home
214
4.4.4.
Offered No Resistance
216
4.5.
Conclusion
223
ch. 5
Reinforced Trial by Media: Evaluative key in court
225
5.1.
Introduction
225
5.1.1.
Newsrooms and courtrooms: Taking a stance
225
5.1.2.
Trial by Media: The pervasive process
227
5.1.3.
Outline of chapter
228
5.2.
Evaluation in text
229
5.2.1.
Evaluation in text: The appraisal system in systemic functional linguistics
231
5.2.2.
Attitude: Ways of feeling
234
5.2.3.
Judgement: Evaluating behaviour
237
5.2.4.
Appreciation: Evaluating things
240
5.3.
Evaluative key
241
5.3.1.
Voices of news, analysis and commentary
243
Reporter voice
244
Commentator voice
246
Correspondent voice
248
5.4.
Evaluation in court
252
5.4.1.
Data: The case of Raelyn Balfour
252
5.4.2.
Selection of data
252
5.4.3.
Methodology
254
5.5.
Judgement in the Closing Arguments of a manslaughter case
258
5.5.1.
Quantitative findings: The statistics
258
5.5.2.
Judgement in the prosecution's Closing
258
5.5.3.
Judgement in the defence's Closing
261
5.5.4.
Qualitative discussion: Beyond the statistics
262
5.6.
Journalistic voices in courtroom language
274
5.6.1.
Possible keys of legal-lay discourse
274
5.6.2.
Keys of journalistic discourse in court
277
5.6.3.
Invoked judgement and keys of journalistic discourse in court
279
5.7.
Conclusion
284
ch. 6
Conclusion: Reconceiving the jury
285
6.1.
Introduction
285
6.2.
Trial by jury: Representation and reality
286
6.3.
Jury secrecy: Impact upon the silent consensus
296
References
307
Name index
319
Subject index
323