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Close analyses of trial language written legal language and the language of jurors interviews reveal how specific linguistic choices mediate and restrict jurors attorneys and judges actions and experiences while serving and reflecting on capital trials the book uncovers a conflict. Confronting the death penalty how language influences jurors in capital cases probes how jurors make the ultimate decision about whether another human being should live or die drawing on ethnographic and qualitative linguistic methods this book explores the means through which language helps to make death penalty decisions possible how specific linguistic choices mediate and restrict . Confronting the death penalty how language influences jurors in capital cases oxford studies in language and law kindle edition by conley robin download it once and read it on your kindle device pc phones or tablets use features like bookmarks note taking and highlighting while reading confronting the death penalty how language influences jurors in capital cases oxford studies in . Confronting the death penalty how language influences jurors in capital cases probes how jurors make the ultimate decision about whether another human being should live or die drawing on ethnographic and qualitative linguistic methods the book explores how language including written laws and trial talk affects jurors death penalty decisions. Confronting the death penalty how language influences jurors in capital cases probes how jurors make the ultimate decision about whether another human being should live or die drawing on ethnographic and qualitative linguistic methods this book explores the means through which language helps to m