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|Title=Person description in plea bargaining
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|Tag(s)=EMCA; Justice; Plea Bargaining; Person descriptions
 
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|Abstract=Parties to a conversation often talk about other people: friends, acquaintances, relatives, strangers, clients, public figures, and so forth. In so doing, they face a selectional problem: namely, of all the things that might be said of a person, how is something chosen for a particular conversation?
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The particular conversations forming the data for this study are transcribed plea negotiations from misdemeanor criminal cases, recorded among defense lawyers, district attorneys, and judges in a municipal court. Talk about defendants, identification of their biographies, and
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assessments of their characters are prominent features of these negotiations. Yet of the many things that could possibly be said regarding defendants' backgrounds, a relative few are utilized. That is, as Atkinson and Drew (1979: 248) put it, '...a description is in principle incomplete, and hence necessarily a selection from what could have been said'. This paper describes a principle that is exhibited in the work that lawyers do to relevantly talk about defendants in the cases before them.
 
 
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Maynard1982a
BibType ARTICLE
Key Maynard1982a
Author(s) Douglas W. Maynard
Title Person-description in plea bargaining
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Tag(s) EMCA, Justice, Plea Bargaining, Person descriptions
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Year 1982
Language English
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Journal Semiotica
Volume 42
Number 2-4
Pages 195–213
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DOI 10.1515/semi.1982.42.2-4.195
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