Redefining Trial by Media : Towards a critical-forensic linguistic interface.

Intro -- Redefining Trial by Media -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- List of tables -- 1. Defining the scope of the inquiry -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.1.1 Trial by media: First impressions -- 1.1.2 Trial by media: New progressions -- 1.1.3 Outline of book -- 1.2 Trial by media: Principles of law -- 1.2.1 Systems of the law -- 1.2.2 The laws: A fair trial guaranteed? -- 1.3 Trial by media: The realities of language -- 1.3.1 The operation of power -- 1.3.2 Discourse and ideology -- 1.3.3 Institutional news discourse -- 1.3.4 Institution of the law -- 1.3.5 The critical-forensic interface in action -- 1.4 Conclusion -- 2. Direct and enhanced trial by media -- 2.1 Introduction: Linguistic 'isolators' and trial by media -- 2.2 Role of the jury: 'Community values' in court -- 2.2.1 Selection of the jury -- 2.2.2 The law/facts distinction: Jurors as 'triers of fact' -- 2.3 Jurors in the courtroom: Towards a 'framework of isolation' -- 2.3.1 Direct trial by media: Accommodation and encouragement of common sense -- 2.3.2 Linguistic and discursive isolators -- 2.4 Enhanced trial by media: Isolated jurors in court -- 2.4.1 (Mis)conceptions of crime: The Jury's criteria -- 2.4.2 Recourse to these criteria: 'World knowledge' and its construction -- 2.4.3 The process of understanding: 'World knowledge' in operation -- 2.5 Conclusion -- 3. Media-made crime -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.1.1 Media discourses as the makers of crime -- 3.1.2 Outline of chapter -- 3.2 "Mock juries": Researching around the restrictions -- 3.3 Filling the gap: Media-made crime -- 3.3.1 Crime in the emerging media -- 3.3.2 Clarified: The Spectrum of Trial by Media -- 3.4 A critical focus: Data and methodology -- 3.4.1 Crucial elements of the critical focus -- 3.4.2 Choice of data for analysis.

3.5 Crime in the media: The analytical link -- 3.6 Conclusion: Ideologies from the newsroom to the courtroom -- 4. Reinforced Trial by Media: Smuggled narratives in court -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.1.1 Towards Reinforced Trial by Media: The story so far -- 4.1.2 Reinforced Trial by Media: Enter the advocate -- 4.1.3 Outline of chapter -- 4.2 Legal professionals at trial -- 4.2.1 Strategic tensions: Theory versus practice -- 4.2.2 Discourse of the advocate: Legal-lay discourse -- 4.3 Smuggled information: Ideological associations -- 4.3.1 Smuggled information and cognitive constructions -- 4.3.2 Complementary cognitive models: Reinforced Trial by Media reinforced -- 4.3.3 A further model for analysis: Idealised Cognitive Models -- 4.3.4 The ideological ICM: Prostitution in the press -- 4.3.5 Rape ICM: Newsroom and courtroom -- 4.4 Rape in the newsroom reinforced in the courtroom -- 4.4.1 Party Girl -- 4.4.2 No prior knowledge -- 4.4.3 Chose Not to Go Home -- 4.4.4 Offered No Resistance -- 4.5 Conclusion -- 5. Reinforced Trial by Media: Evaluative key in court -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.1.1 Newsrooms and courtrooms: Taking a stance -- 5.1.2 Trial by Media: The pervasive process -- 5.1.3 Outline of chapter -- 5.2 Evaluation in text -- 5.2.1 Evaluation in text: The appraisal system in systemic functional linguistics -- 5.2.2 Attitude: Ways of feeling -- 5.2.3 Judgement: Evaluating behaviour -- 5.2.4 Appreciation: Evaluating things -- 5.3 Evaluative key -- 5.3.1 Voices of news, analysis and commentary -- 5.4 Evaluation in court -- 5.4.1 Data: The case of Raelyn Balfour -- 5.4.2 Selection of data -- 5.4.3 Methodology -- 5.5 Judgement in the Closing Arguments of a manslaughter case -- 5.5.1 Quantitative findings: The statistics -- 5.5.2 Judgement in the prosecution's Closing -- 5.5.3 Judgement in the defence's Closing.

5.5.4 Qualitative discussion: Beyond the statistics -- 5.6 Journalistic voices in courtroom language -- 5.6.1 Possible keys of legal-lay discourse -- 5.6.2 Keys of journalistic discourse in court -- 5.6.3 Invoked judgement and keys of journalistic discourse in court -- 5.7 Conclusion -- 6. Conclusion: Reconceiving the jury -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Trial by jury: Representation and reality -- 6.3 Jury secrecy: Impact upon the silent consensus -- References -- Name index -- Subject index.

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