Processing Multimodal Legal Discourse; The Case of Stanley ‘Tookie’ Williams

P.J. van den Hoven; Gabrijela  Kišiček

Processing Multimodal Legal Discourse; The Case of Stanley ‘Tookie’ Williams

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We focus on a striking difference between prototypical legal discourse format and a complex multimodal discourse format: the role of the mediating narrator. In prototypical verbal legal discourse, the narrator concurs with one clearly identifiable top-voice. The narration is close to ‘monotone’; the top-voice organizes the polyphony. The sources of information are limited and rather conventionally related, in case of an oral presentation and even more in case of written discourse. This is essentially different in multimodal formats. The ‘narrator’, defined as the organizing principle, can be highly abstract, not concurring with one specific discourse voice. Obviously, the agent who presents the discourse has to take responsibility for the way the discourse is narrated, but this responsibility is not ‘embodied’ in this agent acting. The sources of information that are organized by the narrator are many, divers, and relate to each other in complex ways.

Processing Multimodal Legal Discourse; The Case of Stanley ‘Tookie’ Williams. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316990575_Processing_Multimodal_Legal_Discourse_The_Case_of_Stanley_%27Tookie%27_Williams [accessed Jun 26, 2017].

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Studies on argumentation & Legal Philosophy/ 2
Subtitle of host publication	Multimodality and reasonabless in judicial rhetoric
Editors	SERENA TOMASI, FEDERICO PUPPO, MAURIZIO MANZIN
Place of Publication	Trento
Pages	33-62
Number of pages	29
ISBN (Electronic)	978-88-8443-731-0
Publication status	Published - 2017

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Name	Quaderni dell Facoltá di Giurisprudenza
Volume	28
ISSN (Print)	2284-2810

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Processing Multimodal Legal Discourse; The Case of Stanley ‘Tookie’ Williams. / van den Hoven, P.J.; Kišiček, Gabrijela .
Studies on argumentation & Legal Philosophy/ 2: Multimodality and reasonabless in judicial rhetoric. ed. / SERENA TOMASI; FEDERICO PUPPO; MAURIZIO MANZIN. Trento, 2017. p. 33-62 (Quaderni dell Facoltá di Giurisprudenza; Vol. 28).

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