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The Language of Perjury Cases outlines the contributions that linguistics can make to both the gathering of evidence and the way that evidence is analyzed in perjury cases. Roger W. Shuy describes eleven representative lawsuits—involving bankruptcy, unions, hunting licenses, doctors, priests, and Senators—for which he served as a consultant. Shuy's linguistic analysis illustrates how grammatical referencing, speech acts, discourse structure, framing, conveyed meaning, intentionality, and malicious language affected the outcome of these cases.
This volume provides new insights on lying and (intentionally) misleading in and out of the courtroom, a timely topic for scholarship and society. Not all deceptive statements are lies; not every lie under oath amounts to perjury—but what are the relevant criteria? Taxonomies of falsehood based on illocutionary force, utterance context and speakers’ intentions have been debated by linguists, moral philosophers, social psychologists and cognitive scientists. Legal scholars have examined the boundary between actual perjury and garden-variety lies. The fourteen previously unpublished essays in this book apply theoretical and empirical tools to delineate the landscape of falsehood, half-trut...
Carl August Kopp was born 5 April 1807 in Dudweiler, Saarbrucken, Germany. His parents were Johannes Jacob Kopp (1780-1825) and Magdalena Ruetzcky. He married Catherine Margaret Carl (1810-1889), daughter of Johann Christian Carl and Margaret Elizabeth Kramer, 7 April 1835. They had ten children. They emigrated in about 1841 and settled in Wisconsin in 1845. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Germany, Wisconsin and Illinois.
Final issue of each volume includes table of cases reported in the volume.
This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Advances in Organic Conductors and Superconductors" that was published in Crystals
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