Language in the courtroom: a comparative study of American and Romanian criminal trials
Issue: Vol 19 No. 1 (2012)
Journal: International Journal of Speech Language and the Law
Subject Areas: Linguistics
Abstract:
The goal of this thesis was to analyse the speech event known as witness examination, occurring in the courtroom, in two differing systems of justice, the adversarial (American) and the inquisitorial (Romanian) ones.
Author: Marcela Alina Fărcaşiu
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