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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822603003321

Autore

Clason Susanna Shelton

Titolo

Forensic rhetoric : the force of closing arguments / / Susanna Shelton Clason

Pubbl/distr/stampa

El Paso, Tex., : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2010

ISBN

1-59332-550-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (169 p.)

Collana

Criminal justice : recent scholarship

Disciplina

347.73/75

Soggetti

Summation (Law) - United States

Forensic oratory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-154) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The power of legal rhetoric -- Research design and analytic strategy -- Ethos : a rhetoric of impression -- Logos : the rhetoric of reasoning -- Pathos : a rhetoric of engagement -- Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

Clason focuses on the closing argument rhetorical practices of five trial attorneys. She seeks to 1) learn how participants utilized rhetorical strategies in closing argument; 2) better understand how they selected those strategies; and 3) examine why they employed the strategies they did through the central categories of ethos, logos, and pathos. Study participants' awareness and consideration of the classical speaker, audience, and message Aristotelian speech situation as well as the power of persuasion demonstrates the continued influence of rhetoric in courts and rhetorical nature of legal