Language in the Courtroom – A Comparative Study of American and Romanian Criminal Trials

      The language used in the courtroom has long been considered an important field of study; research of institutional interaction has provided a lot of information about the language that the legal and lay participants use in the courtroom and about the linguistic constraints imposed by the legal system.

            The goal of this book is to analyse the speech event known as witness examination, occurring in the courtroom, in two very different systems of justice, the adversarial (American) and the inquisitorial (Romanian) ones.