Deceptive ambiguity by police and prosecutors

By:

Shuy, Roger W

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Oxford studies in language and lawPublication details: 2017 New York Oxford University Press Description: 1 online resourceISBN:

9780190669928

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Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:

347.066 23 SH-D

LOC classification:

P325.5.A46

Online resources:

Oxford scholarship online

Summary: 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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Electronic-Books	OPJGU Sonepat- Campus	E-Books Perpetual	347.066 SH-D (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		700432

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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