Deceptive Ambiguity by Police and Prosecutors

ISBN-10
0190669926
ISBN-13
9780190669928
Category
Ambiguity
Language
English
Published
2017
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Authors
Roger W. Shuy, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics Roger W Shuy

Description

Ambiguity is commonly considered unintentional while deception is considered intentional. Here, Roger W. Shuy describes fifteen criminal cases in which police, prosecutors, and undercover agents used deceptive ambiguity with criminal suspects and defendants, many times giving evidence of being intentionally constructed through the manipulation of the speech events, schemas, agendas, speech acts, strategies, lexicon, and grammar

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