Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction to the language of bribery -- 2.Bribery: A brief history and background -- 3.The linguistic tools for dealing with bribery -- 4.The crystal-clear bribery events of U.S. Congressmen Ozzie Myers and Richard Kelly -- 5.The aborted bribery event of U.S. Senator Larry Pressler -- 6.The camouflaged bribery events of businessmen Kenneth McDonald and Milton McGregor -- 7.The bribery event that continued after the target said "no": The case of U.S. Senator Harrison A. Williams -- 8.The entrapment bribery event of taxpayer Vaughn Sligh -- 9.The business transaction event that morphed into a bribery event: The case of Texas state legislator Billy Clayton -- 10.The bungled rejection of a bribery event by Nevada brothel commissioners John Poli and John McNown -- 11.The coded bribery event of Federal Judge Alcee Hastings -- 12.The manipulated bribery event of businessman Paul Manziel -- 13.A bribery event that never happened: The case of businessman Vernon Drabek -- 14.The role of linguistic analysis in bribery cases -- 15.The legal context of bribery language and law.
Summary
This title describes ten bribery-related court cases for which the author served as an expert language witness. The cases described include the bribery or alleged bribery of United States senators, congressmen, judges, businessmen, and brothel owners, among others. Shuy describes the often-unused linguistic analytical tools that are available to both the prosecution and defence as they argue these cases. His analysis illustrates how grammatical referencing, speech acts, discourse structure, framing, conveyed meaning, and intentionality can be useful, and he describes how these tools affected the outcomes of the particular cases discussed.
