Marianne Mason
Biographic Data
| ID | 3824213 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marianne Mason |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marianne |
| FAMILY NAME | Mason |
| SIGNATURE | MASON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Madison University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reconsidering Miranda rights
This paper develops a method to identify manipulation of custodial suspects who attempt to invoke the Miranda right to legal counsel during a custodial interrogation. The method, developed from a combination of framing theory and hypergame theory, first documents the point where custodial suspects' preferences shift and second identifies the proximate cause of that shift using excerpts from legal cases. The method applies linguistic analysis with…
Police Interrogation, Language, and the Law
Recent calls for justice reform have put a spotlight on how the police enforce the law in the United States. How a person's constitutional rights may be legally thwarted during police interrogation, however, has not been part of any meaningful discussion on police reform. This novel book examines the intersections of the law and policing discourse through the detailed analysis of a large corpus of United States federal court rulings, starting wit…
Psychics and the ‘other side’
This article provides a discourse analysis of a large corpus of televised psychic readings. The goal of this study is to uncover the relationship between the linguistic structure of psychic readings and the psychics’ linguistic agenda. The findings of this study suggest that the psychics’ engage in linguistic tactics that allow them to negotiate and extract specific information from their subjects. The discourse structure of psychic readings faci…
Examining the rhetorical structure and discursive features of letters of leniency as a genre
This paper presents a genre analysis of 73 letters of leniency, which were obtained in two United States federal district courthouses. The primary objective of this type of genre is to persuade a judge to be lenient during the sentencing of a defendant, such as by reducing or commuting the defendant’s sentence. This paper examines how writers of this genre structure their letters and use discursive features, in particular linguistically-realized …
Negotiated exchanges in the Spanish–English bilingual courtroom
This paper examines the interpreters’ use of requests for clarification in two criminal (Spanish–English) jury trials. The aim of the paper is to study how interpreters in the case studies reconcile expected courtroom protocols and standards with perceived communicative breakdowns that require clarification. The interpreters’ attempts at clarification, which at times also shape the witnesses’ treatment of misunderstandings and/or other repairs, a…
The 'preparatory' and 'argumentation' stages of police interrogation
Can I get a lawyer? A suspect's use of indirect requests in a custodial setting
The manner in which a custodial suspect performs his/her invocation for counsel determines whether it is deemed unequivocal. Legal precedence since Miranda shows that the courts often give legal effect to invocations for counsel that are formulated directly whereas those formulated indirectly are not. Research suggests that the courts’ interpretation of what constitutes an unequivocal invocation for counsel tends to penalise speakers who use indi…
Referential choices and the need for repairs in covertly-taped conversations
Referring and repairing in Spanish covertly taped conversations
This thesis investigates to what extent it is possible to perform forensic speaker identification under three important conditions of realism
Referring and repairing in Spanish covertly taped conversations
This thesis investigates to what extent it is possible to perform forensic speaker identification under three important conditions of realism
Referential choices and the need for repairs in covertly-taped conversations
Can I get a lawyer? A suspect's use of indirect requests in a custodial setting
The manner in which a custodial suspect performs his/her invocation for counsel determines whether it is deemed unequivocal. Legal precedence since Miranda shows that the courts often give legal effect to invocations for counsel that are formulated directly whereas those formulated indirectly are not. Research suggests that the courts’ interpretation of what constitutes an unequivocal invocation for counsel tends to penalise speakers who use indi…
The 'preparatory' and 'argumentation' stages of police interrogation
Negotiated exchanges in the Spanish–English bilingual courtroom
This paper examines the interpreters’ use of requests for clarification in two criminal (Spanish–English) jury trials. The aim of the paper is to study how interpreters in the case studies reconcile expected courtroom protocols and standards with perceived communicative breakdowns that require clarification. The interpreters’ attempts at clarification, which at times also shape the witnesses’ treatment of misunderstandings and/or other repairs, a…
Psychics and the ‘other side’
This article provides a discourse analysis of a large corpus of televised psychic readings. The goal of this study is to uncover the relationship between the linguistic structure of psychic readings and the psychics’ linguistic agenda. The findings of this study suggest that the psychics’ engage in linguistic tactics that allow them to negotiate and extract specific information from their subjects. The discourse structure of psychic readings faci…
Examining the rhetorical structure and discursive features of letters of leniency as a genre
This paper presents a genre analysis of 73 letters of leniency, which were obtained in two United States federal district courthouses. The primary objective of this type of genre is to persuade a judge to be lenient during the sentencing of a defendant, such as by reducing or commuting the defendant’s sentence. This paper examines how writers of this genre structure their letters and use discursive features, in particular linguistically-realized …
Police Interrogation, Language, and the Law
Recent calls for justice reform have put a spotlight on how the police enforce the law in the United States. How a person's constitutional rights may be legally thwarted during police interrogation, however, has not been part of any meaningful discussion on police reform. This novel book examines the intersections of the law and policing discourse through the detailed analysis of a large corpus of United States federal court rulings, starting wit…
Reconsidering Miranda rights
This paper develops a method to identify manipulation of custodial suspects who attempt to invoke the Miranda right to legal counsel during a custodial interrogation. The method, developed from a combination of framing theory and hypergame theory, first documents the point where custodial suspects' preferences shift and second identifies the proximate cause of that shift using excerpts from legal cases. The method applies linguistic analysis with…
Psychology (8 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare (4 works) · Interrogation (4 works)