Bethany K Dumas
Biographic Data
| ID | 229962 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bethany K Dumas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bethany K |
| FAMILY NAME | Dumas |
| SIGNATURE | DUMAS B K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Language of Jury Instructions
Jury instructions, also called jury charges, jury directions, or simply instructions, charges, or directions, are the legal guidelines provided by judges to jurors at trial, civil and criminal, usually at the conclusion of all evidence. Their function is to instruct juries in how to reach decisions or findings of fact based upon the evidence presented. Jury trials are distinguished from bench trials, in which judges make all decisions. Jurors are…
Roger W. Shuy , Creating language crimes: How law enforcement uses (and misuses) language
Roger W. Shuy , Creating language crimes: How law enforcement uses (and misuses) language . New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 194. Hb $29.95. Legal process, whether civil or criminal, depends heavily on the medium of language. It is the glue that runs through all of legal process, the medium of all interactive communication prior to, during, and after trial process. In criminal law, it is also the spoken medium of police investiga…
US pattern jury instructions: Problems and proposals
The syntactic and semantic difficulties faced by jurors in courtroom trials, particularly with respect to jury instructions, are well documented (see, e.g., Charrow and Charrow 1979; Steele and Thornburg 1988; Tiersma 1993). Given the clear consensus about the difficulties of dealing with long, complex sentences and specialized terms of art (e.g. reasonable doubt), it has been difficult to understand why the legal system has been so slow to modif…
Dialect Variation and Legal Process
Research Article| August 01 2000 DIALECT VARIATION AND LEGAL PROCESS BETHANY K. DUMAS BETHANY K. DUMAS Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (3): 267–270. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-3-267 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citatio…
Linguistic ambiguity in non-statuary language: Problems in ‘The search warrant in the matter of 7505 Derris Drive’
When a motion to suppress was filed in a federal prosecution, this question arose: Did the search warrant authorize the FBI to seize the evidence sought to be suppressed? The warrant described certain items that could be seized, including both accounting documents and items such as notes and memoranda. A linguist testified about the current meanings of the non-accounting terms and the scope of the modifying clauses, ‘which will disclose the sale …
Forensic Linguistics: A Brief Anthology
Deconstructing the Patriarchal Universe of Discourse
Voice Identification in a Criminal Law Context
EGAL GUILT CAN BE ESTABLISHED BY the similarity of a defendant's personal characteristics to the personal characteristics of the perpetrator of a crime. Such comparisons are often made on the basis of eyewitness testimony, and in recent years there has been a great deal of research into the psychology of eyewitness testimony (see, e.g., Loftus 1979, Komulainen 1988). Visual cues are recalled, reawakened, and reported in the medium of language, ho…
Analyzing Conversation
Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk among Friends . By Deborah Tannen
The Dialect of Egton in North Yorkshire
Cockney Dialect and Slang
The Mobilian Trade Language . James M. Crawford
Is Slang a Word for Linguists
ALTHOUGH THE PHENOMENON has frequently been discussed, term SLANG has rarely been defined in a way that is useful to linguists.' Annoyance and frustration await anyone who searches professional literature for a definition or even a conception of SLANG that can stand up to scrutiny. Instead one finds impressionism, much of it of a dismaying kind. Holding a distinctly minority view, S. I. Hayakawa (1941, pp. 194-95) has called slang the poetry of e…
E. E. Cummings: A Remembrance of Miracles
Is Slang a Word for Linguists
ALTHOUGH THE PHENOMENON has frequently been discussed, term SLANG has rarely been defined in a way that is useful to linguists.' Annoyance and frustration await anyone who searches professional literature for a definition or even a conception of SLANG that can stand up to scrutiny. Instead one finds impressionism, much of it of a dismaying kind. Holding a distinctly minority view, S. I. Hayakawa (1941, pp. 194-95) has called slang the poetry of e…
Voice Identification in a Criminal Law Context
EGAL GUILT CAN BE ESTABLISHED BY the similarity of a defendant's personal characteristics to the personal characteristics of the perpetrator of a crime. Such comparisons are often made on the basis of eyewitness testimony, and in recent years there has been a great deal of research into the psychology of eyewitness testimony (see, e.g., Loftus 1979, Komulainen 1988). Visual cues are recalled, reawakened, and reported in the medium of language, ho…
Analyzing Conversation
Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk among Friends . By Deborah Tannen
Dialect Variation and Legal Process
Research Article| August 01 2000 DIALECT VARIATION AND LEGAL PROCESS BETHANY K. DUMAS BETHANY K. DUMAS Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (3): 267–270. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-3-267 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citatio…
Cockney Dialect and Slang
The Mobilian Trade Language . James M. Crawford
E. E. Cummings: A Remembrance of Miracles
Is Slang a Word for Linguists
ALTHOUGH THE PHENOMENON has frequently been discussed, term SLANG has rarely been defined in a way that is useful to linguists.' Annoyance and frustration await anyone who searches professional literature for a definition or even a conception of SLANG that can stand up to scrutiny. Instead one finds impressionism, much of it of a dismaying kind. Holding a distinctly minority view, S. I. Hayakawa (1941, pp. 194-95) has called slang the poetry of e…
The Mobilian Trade Language . James M. Crawford
Cockney Dialect and Slang
The Dialect of Egton in North Yorkshire
Analyzing Conversation
Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk among Friends . By Deborah Tannen
Voice Identification in a Criminal Law Context
EGAL GUILT CAN BE ESTABLISHED BY the similarity of a defendant's personal characteristics to the personal characteristics of the perpetrator of a crime. Such comparisons are often made on the basis of eyewitness testimony, and in recent years there has been a great deal of research into the psychology of eyewitness testimony (see, e.g., Loftus 1979, Komulainen 1988). Visual cues are recalled, reawakened, and reported in the medium of language, ho…
Deconstructing the Patriarchal Universe of Discourse
Forensic Linguistics: A Brief Anthology
Linguistic ambiguity in non-statuary language: Problems in ‘The search warrant in the matter of 7505 Derris Drive’
When a motion to suppress was filed in a federal prosecution, this question arose: Did the search warrant authorize the FBI to seize the evidence sought to be suppressed? The warrant described certain items that could be seized, including both accounting documents and items such as notes and memoranda. A linguist testified about the current meanings of the non-accounting terms and the scope of the modifying clauses, ‘which will disclose the sale …
US pattern jury instructions: Problems and proposals
The syntactic and semantic difficulties faced by jurors in courtroom trials, particularly with respect to jury instructions, are well documented (see, e.g., Charrow and Charrow 1979; Steele and Thornburg 1988; Tiersma 1993). Given the clear consensus about the difficulties of dealing with long, complex sentences and specialized terms of art (e.g. reasonable doubt), it has been difficult to understand why the legal system has been so slow to modif…
Dialect Variation and Legal Process
Research Article| August 01 2000 DIALECT VARIATION AND LEGAL PROCESS BETHANY K. DUMAS BETHANY K. DUMAS Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (3): 267–270. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-3-267 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citatio…
Roger W. Shuy , Creating language crimes: How law enforcement uses (and misuses) language
Roger W. Shuy , Creating language crimes: How law enforcement uses (and misuses) language . New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 194. Hb $29.95. Legal process, whether civil or criminal, depends heavily on the medium of language. It is the glue that runs through all of legal process, the medium of all interactive communication prior to, during, and after trial process. In criminal law, it is also the spoken medium of police investiga…
Language of Jury Instructions
Jury instructions, also called jury charges, jury directions, or simply instructions, charges, or directions, are the legal guidelines provided by judges to jurors at trial, civil and criminal, usually at the conclusion of all evidence. Their function is to instruct juries in how to reach decisions or findings of fact based upon the evidence presented. Jury trials are distinguished from bench trials, in which judges make all decisions. Jurors are…
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