…and I’m telling you honestly, I don’t measure: Emotive reframing and evasiveness in expert testimony

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
…and I’m telling you honestly, I don’t measure: Emotive reframing and evasiveness in expert testimony
Original language description
This chapter considers patterns of evasive behaviour in expert testimony with regard to medical evidence in a criminal trial. Building on earlier work on emotive communication, it explains how linguistic avoidance is realised in the cross-examination of expert witnesses, in addition to identifying differences between the testimony of a cooperative witness and that of an uncooperative witness. In the analysis, avoidance is considered in relation to six dimensions: certainty, volitionality, proximity, evaluation, specificity, as well as size/degree/quantity. The chapter argues that expert witnesses’ avoidance of full epistemic commitment to uncomfortable concepts and/or propositions – similarly to stress responses to perceived or real danger in the physical environment – can be conceptualised not only as withdrawal (“flight” mode) but also, in the case of combative witnesses, as approach (“fight” mode).
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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