LING 412 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Forego
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You ask for it just so: the role of linguistic ideology in american police interrogation law. Janet ainsworth: the constitutional rights of miranda are. Practically unattainable by most arrestees: using an unintentionally leagally enfelicitous. Utterance may cause speakers to fail to achieve. Their desired outcomes: lack of knowledge of legally felicitous speech is being used against arrestees, when language fails to track traditional script, arrestees are unable to reach desired legal ends, the 5th ammendment: people cannot be forced by. Themselves: police interrogations are asymmetrical, manipulative, psychologically abrasive interrogation ii. Incommunicado atmosphere: psychological pressures, lies, accusations, persuasion, intimidation, trickery, and isolation: confessions are only valid when voluntary. It is highly questionable whether a resulting confession from an incommunicado police interrogation is product of unfettered free will. i. If custodial interrogation taints voluntariness, the police must forego interrogation entirely. ii. iii.
