The sociolinguistic creation of opposing representations of defendants and victims

International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-30

  Rosulek, Laura Felton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Closing arguments; Criminal trials; Critical discourse analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349751426     PISSN: 17488885     EISSN: 17488893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1558/ijsll.v16i1.1     Document Type: Article

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