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

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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).

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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).

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

More than (Just) Words

ISBN

978-3-11-143090-4

Počet stran výsledku

27

Strana od-do

99-125

Počet stran knihy

320

Název nakladatele

Walter de Gruyter GmbH &amp; Co. KG

Místo vydání

Berlin

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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