Robin Conley
Biographic Data
| ID | 87112 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin Conley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin |
| FAMILY NAME | Conley |
| SIGNATURE | CONLEY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Marshall University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Confronting the Death Penalty: How Language Influences Jurors in Capital Cases
"Confronting the Death Penalty probes how jurors make the ultimate decision about whether another human being should live or die. Drawing on ethnographic and qualitative linguistic methods, Robin Conley explores the means through which language helps to make death penalty decisions possible - how specific linguistic choices mediate and restrict jurors', attorneys', and judges' actions and experiences while serving and reflecting on capital trials…
Living with the decision that someone will die: Linguistic distance and empathy in jurors' death penalty decisions
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Texas death penalty trials, this article explores how language helps to make death penalty decisions possible-how specific communicative choices mediate and restrict jurors', attorneys', and judges' actions and experiences while serving and reflecting on capital trials. By analyzing postverdict interviews with jurors, trial language, and written legal language, I examine a variety of communicative practices thro…
At the Time She Was a Man: The Temporal Dimension of Identity Construction
This article examines the temporal elements of identity construction, drawing parallels between the construction of ethnographic, legal, and personal identities. The article presents a case of transsexual identity, analyzing how people reference a transsexual in order to illuminate the temporal complexity of gendered identity construction and identity in general. The study consists of a micro-analysis of scientists and lawyers talking about trans…
Living with the decision that someone will die: Linguistic distance and empathy in jurors' death penalty decisions
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Texas death penalty trials, this article explores how language helps to make death penalty decisions possible-how specific communicative choices mediate and restrict jurors', attorneys', and judges' actions and experiences while serving and reflecting on capital trials. By analyzing postverdict interviews with jurors, trial language, and written legal language, I examine a variety of communicative practices thro…
At the Time She Was a Man: The Temporal Dimension of Identity Construction
This article examines the temporal elements of identity construction, drawing parallels between the construction of ethnographic, legal, and personal identities. The article presents a case of transsexual identity, analyzing how people reference a transsexual in order to illuminate the temporal complexity of gendered identity construction and identity in general. The study consists of a micro-analysis of scientists and lawyers talking about trans…
At the Time She Was a Man: The Temporal Dimension of Identity Construction
This article examines the temporal elements of identity construction, drawing parallels between the construction of ethnographic, legal, and personal identities. The article presents a case of transsexual identity, analyzing how people reference a transsexual in order to illuminate the temporal complexity of gendered identity construction and identity in general. The study consists of a micro-analysis of scientists and lawyers talking about trans…
Living with the decision that someone will die: Linguistic distance and empathy in jurors' death penalty decisions
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Texas death penalty trials, this article explores how language helps to make death penalty decisions possible-how specific communicative choices mediate and restrict jurors', attorneys', and judges' actions and experiences while serving and reflecting on capital trials. By analyzing postverdict interviews with jurors, trial language, and written legal language, I examine a variety of communicative practices thro…
Confronting the Death Penalty: How Language Influences Jurors in Capital Cases
"Confronting the Death Penalty probes how jurors make the ultimate decision about whether another human being should live or die. Drawing on ethnographic and qualitative linguistic methods, Robin Conley explores the means through which language helps to make death penalty decisions possible - how specific linguistic choices mediate and restrict jurors', attorneys', and judges' actions and experiences while serving and reflecting on capital trials…
Law in Society and Culture (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Agency (philosophy) (1 works) · Capital punishment (1 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (1 works) · Decision making (1 works) · Decision making (1 works) · Dehumanization (1 works) · Deixis (1 works) · Empathy (1 works)