M Catherine Gruber

I'm Sorry for What I've Done

The Language of Courtroom Apologies

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the courtroom apologies of 52 defendants, and how their language is limited by the restraints imposed by sentencing

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 164mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9780199325665
• ISBN-10: 0199325669
• Artikelnr.: 40398195

Autorenporträt

After 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.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 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 and the corpus of allocutions
Appendix 4: Display of allocutions by coded categories
Appendix 5: Sentencing table
Works Cited