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Overview"This book examines 52 apologetic allocutions produced during federal sentencing hearings. The practice of inviting defendants to make a statement in their own behalf is a long-standing one and it is understood as offering defendants the opportunity to impress a judge or jury with their remorse, which could be a factor in the sentence that is imposed. Defendants raised the topics of the offense, mitigation, future behaviour and the sentence in different ways and this book explores the pros and cons associated with the different strategies that they used. Because there is no way of ascertaining exactly how effective (or ineffective) an individual allocution is, case law, sociolinguistic and historical resources, and judges' final remarks are used to develop hypotheses about defendants' communicative goals as well as what might constitute an ideal defendant stance from a judge's point of view. The corpus is unique because, unlike official transcripts, the transcripts used for this study include paralinguistic features such as hesitations, wavering voice, and crying-while-talking. Among its highlights, the book proposes that although a ritualized apology formula (e.g., ""I'm sorry"" or ""I apologize"") would appear to be a good fit for the context of allocution and even appears to be expected, the use of these formulas carries implications in this context that do not serve defendants' communicative goals. I argue that the application of Austin's (1962) performative-constative continuum reveals that offense-related utterances that fall closer to the constative end are more consistent with the discursive constraints on the speech event of allocution. Further, I propose that the ideologies associated with allocution, in particular the belief that allocution functions as a protection for defendants, obscures the ways in which the context constrains what defendants can say and how effectively they can say it." Full Product DetailsAuthor: M. Catherine Gruber (PhD in Linguistics, PhD in Linguistics, University of Chicago)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 24.00cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 16.40cm Weight: 0.463kg ISBN: 9780199325665ISBN 10: 0199325669 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 29 May 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsChapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Apologies and Courtroom Apologies Chapter Three: The Context of Federal Sentencing Hearings Chapter Four: What Defendants Say in Response to their Offenses Chapter Five: Defendants Talk about the Past, the Future, and the Present: Mitigation, Future Chapter Six: Broad Features of Defendants' Allocutions Chapter Seven: Conclusions Appendix 1: Data collection and the defendants Appendix 2: Coding system Appendix 3: Transcription practices & the corpus of allocutions Appendix 4: Display of allocutions by coded categories Appendix 5: Sentencing table Works CitedReviewsI have no hesitation in recommending it to any student of language. Joe Sinclair, New Nuturing Potential Author InformationAfter completing the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame with a second major in German in 1990, Mary Catherine (Katie) Gruber studied Slavic languages and literatures at Ohio State University, completing two masters degrees in 1994. After a brief stint working in Washington DC, she entered the linguistics program at the University of Chicago and completed her Ph.D. in 2007. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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