Deceptive ambiguity by police and prosecutors
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TextSeries: Oxford studies in language and lawPublication details: 2017 New York Oxford University Press Description: 1 online resourceISBN: - 9780190669928
- 347.066 23 SH-D
- P325.5.A46
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Previously issued in print: 2017.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ambiguity is commonly considered unintentional while deception is considered intentional. Here, Roger W. Shuy describes fifteen criminal cases in which police, prosecutors, and undercover agents used deceptive ambiguity with criminal suspects and defendants, many times giving evidence of being intentionally constructed through the manipulation of the speech events, schemas, agendas, speech acts, strategies, lexicon, and grammar.
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