"I'm sorry for what I've done" : the language of courtroom apologies / M. Catherine Gruber.
2014
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Title
"I'm sorry for what I've done" : the language of courtroom apologies / M. Catherine Gruber.
Published
Oxford, UK ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Copyright
©2014
Call Number
KF9678 .G78 2014
ISBN
9780199325665 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
0199325669 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
0199325669 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
Description
xl, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)869065031
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-236) and index.
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Language of courtroom apologies
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
xi
1.
Introduction
1
1.0.
Framing the Project
1
1.1.
Analyzing the Data
7
1.2.
The Structure of This Book
8
2.
Apologies and Courtroom Apologies
11
2.0.
Introduction
11
2.1.
Apologies as Speech Acts
11
2.2.
Definitions and Assumptions
12
2.3.
Apologies and the Display of Emotion
15
2.4.
Patterns of Forms and Contexts: Other Studies and This One
19
2.5.
Apologies and the Context of Sentencing Hearings
22
3.
The Context of Federal Sentencing Hearings
26
3.0.
Introduction
26
3.1.
The Structure and Functions of Sentencing Hearings
26
3.2.
Allocution in Practice over the Years
32
3.3.
Language Ideologies surrounding the Speech of Defendants
37
3.4.
Sentencing Hearings in Three U.S. District Courtrooms
39
3.5.
Summing Up
43
4.
What Defendants Say in Response to Their Offenses
46
4.0.
Introduction
46
4.1.
Responding to the Offense by Focusing on It
47
4.1.1.
Assessments
48
4.1.2.
Responsibility
51
4.1.3.
Harm
59
4.2.
Responding to the Offense by Giving a Personal Response
67
4.2.1.
Sorry
67
4.2.2.
Apologize
70
4.2.3.
Other Feelings
74
4.3.
Defendants' References to Their Offenses
75
4.3.1.
Relatively Specific References
75
4.3.2.
Relatively Vague References
76
4.4.
Summing Up
82
5.
Defendants Talk about the Past, the Future, and the Present: Mitigations, Future Behavior, and the Sentence
85
5.0.
Introduction
85
5.1.
Mitigation
85
5.1.1.
Explanations
86
5.1.2.
Person-Based Mitigations
89
5.1.3.
Mitigating the Offense
97
5.1.4.
Mitigation for Family
99
5.1.5.
Summing Up
103
5.2.
Future Behavior
104
5.2.1.
Positive Future
104
5.2.2.
Redress
105
5.2.3.
Abstain
106
5.2.4.
"I Have Changed"
107
5.2.5.
Summing Up
112
5.3.
The Sentence
113
5.3.1.
Sentence Requests
113
5.3.2.
Sentence Acceptance
118
5.3.3.
Sentence Criticism
119
5.3.4.
Summing Up
120
6.
Broad Features of Defendants' Allocutions
122
6.0.
Introduction
122
6.1.
Conversational Styles of Defendants
122
6.1.1.
Nonstandard and Informal Elements
123
6.1.2.
Politeness Markers
126
6.2.
"Just"
128
6.3.
Paralinguistic Indexes
133
6.4.
Allocution Patterns
138
6.4.1.
Frequencies of Code Use
138
6.4.2.
The Morphology of an Allocution
138
6.4.3.
Patterns of Use Characteristic of Groups of Defendants
142
6.4.4.
Allocution Patterns by Courtroom
142
6.4.5.
Distinctive Patterns of Written Allocutions
144
6.5.
Summing Up
144
7.
Conclusions
146
7.0.
Findings
146
7.1.
What Apologetic Allocutions Can Tell Us about Apologies More Generally
156
7.2.
Final Thoughts
159
Appendix 1
Data Collection and the Defendants
161
Appendix 2
Coding System
164
Appendix 3
Transcription Practices and the Corpus of Allocutions
169
Appendix 4
Display of Allocutions by Coded Categories
207
Appendix 5
Sentencing Table
210
Notes
211
Works Cited
228
Index
237