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Bhatt, Rakesh M. Bhatt, Rakesh M. Kibbee, Douglas A. Koven, Michele Terkourafi, Marina Rosulek, Laura Felton 2014-05-06T17:57:10Z 2014-05-06T17:57:10Z 10000-01-01 2009 This dissertation is a critical analysis of the sociolinguistic choices lawyers make in the closing arguments of criminal trials to construct opposing representations of the same people and events. I analyzed the closing arguments of seventeen felony trials using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies and the insights of Critical Discourse Analysis, Systemic Functional Linguistics, and Linguistic Anthropology. Based on the results of four analyses, I argue that opposing lawyers use their linguistic and discursive choices contrastively to silence, background, and foreground different information. Submitted by Sarah Shreeves (sshreeve@illinois.edu) on 2014-05-06T17:57:10Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Rosulek_Dissertation.pdf: 18009403 bytes, checksum: d9eb823cb8c4b0dc6a85fff17418a4d1 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2014-05-06T17:57:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rosulek_Dissertation.pdf: 18009403 bytes, checksum: d9eb823cb8c4b0dc6a85fff17418a4d1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:33:17-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: Dissertation Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Sarah Shreeves (sshreeve@illinois.edu) on 2014-05-06T17:57:11Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Dissertation U of I Only http://hdl.handle.net/2142/48993 en Copyright 2009 Laura Felton Rosulek Linguistics Critical discourse analysis Systemic functional linguistics Linguistic anthropology Closing arguments The sociolinguistic construction of reality in the closing arguments of criminal trials text Linguistics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.