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Download full textStygall, Gail – 1992
Professional and disciplinary rhetoric often breaks down when texts cross professional boundaries. An ethnographic study conducted in an Indiana courtroom during a civil trial demonstrates the failure of disciplinary rhetoric. Despite the fact that the plaintiffs in a personal injury case had demonstrated the negligence of the defendant according…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Communities, Discourse Modes
