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Discourse Studies
Research from University of Colorado yields new data on discourse studies
May 30th, 2009
According to a study from the United States, "An important but unstudied event in US legal institutions is when judges question plaintiff and defense attorneys about the issue that brings them to an appeals hearing before a state supreme court. In this article I analyze judges' questioning during the oral argument phase of the New York Court of Appeals' hearing of Hernandez v. Robles, a case concerning whether the state was violating same-sex couples' constitutional rights by denying them access to marriage." "The article's purpose is to show how the content, format, and language style of judges' questioning turns constructs the judges as persons possessing particular...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2009-05-30)
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