Deceptive ambiguity by police and prosecutors / Roger W. Shuy.

By:

Shuy, Roger W [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Oxford studies in language and lawPublisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780190669928

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

401.43 23

LOC classification:

P325.5.A46

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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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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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Deceptive ambiguity by police and prosecutors / Roger W. Shuy.