Closing Argument as Multimodal Oratory: Insights from the Chauvin Trial
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11196-023-09984-z" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11196-023-09984-z</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11196-023-09984-z" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11196-023-09984-z</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Closing Argument as Multimodal Oratory: Insights from the Chauvin Trial
Original language description
The paper examines selected aspects of the defence closing argument in a highly publicised criminal trial to illustrate the orchestration of various semiotic resources in legal persuasion and to explain their role in the creation of meaning. The study demonstrates that closing arguments are multimodal performances whose persuasiveness results from the combination of modes (speech, image, video, gaze, gesture, posture, proxemics) which contextualise and strengthen one another, rather than language alone. Drawing on earlier research into multimodality, courtroom rhetoric and proximity in disciplinary genres, the analysis centres on the ways in which the defence counsel controls the rhetorical features of his narrative and constructs himself and the audience as people with similar understandings and goals. The study specifically demonstrates how the counsel constructs the proximity of commitment, the proximity of membership and the proximity of experience. It explores such facets of proximity as: organisation, argument structure, credibility, stance and engagement, and identifies key rhetorical strategies used to achieve the intended communicative effect. The analysis clearly shows that the persuasiveness of the counsel's performance depends on the synchronisation of a range of meaning-making resources, which, if used in isolation, would result in a much less engaging argument.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
International Journal for the Semiotics of Law
ISSN
0952-8059
e-ISSN
1572-8722
Volume of the periodical
36
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
37
Pages from-to
1109-1145
UT code for WoS article
000971868800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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