Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ521359
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1996
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Language and Implicit Attributions in the Nuremberg Trials: Analyzing Prosecutors' and Defense Attorneys' Closing Speeches.
Schmid, Jeannette; Fiedler, Klaus
Human Communication Research, v22 n3 p371-98 Mar 1996
Investigates attributional implications of prosecutors' and defense attorneys' language strategies using the protocols of the historical Nuremberg trials. States that apart from more positive statements regarding the defendants being made by defense lawyers than prosecutors, both sides used a number of subtler strategies. (PA)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Court Litigation, International Crimes, Language Usage, Lawyers, Nazism
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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