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Peer reviewedPhilips, Susan U. – Discourse Processes, 1985
Reports on a study of judges' strategies in clarifying their verbal explanations of constitutional rights to criminal defendants. Identifies six clarification processes and compares them with other studies of clarification processes and with the properties of simplified registers, particularly speech addressed to first- and second-language…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Constitutional Law, Court Judges, Discourse Analysis
