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Deceptive Ambiguity by Police and Prosecutors (Hardcover)
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Deceptive Ambiguity by Police and Prosecutors (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Language and Law
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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. Deception is
commonly considered intentional while ambiguity is often excused as
unintentional, in line with Grice's maxim of sincerity in his
cooperative principle. Most of the interactions of suspects,
defendants, and targets with representatives of law enforcement,
however, are oppositional, adversarial, and non-cooperative events
that provide the opportunity for participants to stretch, ignore,
or even violate the cooperative principle. One effective way law
enforcement does this is by using ambiguity. Suspects and
defendants may hear such ambiguous speech and not recognize the
ambiguity and therefore react in ways that they may not have
understood or intended. The fifteen case studies in this book
illustrate how deceptive ambiguity, whether intentional or not, is
used as commonly by police, prosecutors and undercover agents as it
is by suspects and defendants.
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Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Oxford Studies in Language and Law |
Release date: |
October 2017 |
Authors: |
Roger W. Shuy
(Distinguished Research Professor of Linguistics)
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Dimensions: |
243 x 163 x 26mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
272 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-066989-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Law >
Laws of other jurisdictions & general law >
Criminal law
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LSN: |
0-19-066989-6 |
Barcode: |
9780190669898 |
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