Credibility in Court - Communicative Practices in the Camorra Trials

This study combines analysis of actual talk and power technologies with a reflection on the communicative representation of cultural constructs such as truth and credibility to examine shifting relationships between witnesses and the Justice Department in the trials of the Nuova Camorra Organizzata, an Italian criminal organisation. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: men of honour, men of truth; Part I. Constructing a Criminal World: 2. For a history of the present: how belonging to a community became a crime; 3. The simulacra of the pentiti; Part II. Constructing a convincing world: 4. On credibility (the pentito and the judge); 5. On knowledge (pentiti's narrative strategies); Part III. Constructing a Reliable World: 6. On indirectness (pentito v. defence lawyer); 7. On accountability (pentito v. judge); Part IV. Constructing an antagonistic world: 8. On respect (pentito v. defendant); 9. On truth (pentito v. pentito) ; Conclusions: 10. Justice, discourse, and society.

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• Authors: Marco Jacquemet, Marco (Columbia University Jacquemet
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2009
• EAN: 9780521121286
• ISBN: 978-0-521-12128-6
• No. of pages: 340
• Series: Studies in Interactional Socio
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics