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Deceptive Ambiguity by Police and Prosecutors

Deceptive Ambiguity by Police and Prosecutors

Shuy, Roger W.

Hardcover

Series: Oxford Studies in Language and Law

LinguisticsGeneral Law

ISBN10: 0190669896
ISBN13: 9780190669898
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Oct 3 2017
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.79
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Much has been written about how criminal suspects, defendants, and the targets of undercover operations employ ambiguous language as they interact with the legal system. This book examines the other side of the coin, describing fifteen criminal investigations that demonstrate how police, prosecutors, and undercover agents use deceptive ambiguity with their subjects and targets, thereby creating misrepresentations through their uses of speech events, schemas, agendas, speech acts, lexicon, and grammar. This misrepresentation also can strongly affect the perceptions of later listeners, such as judges and juries, about the subjects' motives, predispositions, intentions, and voluntariness.

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