Leaving no room for doubt and exceptions: closing arguments through the lens of metadiscourse

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• What: The article describes how attorneys exploit boosters to produce convincing arguments and control the power relationship with an audience. Given the imbalance in the amount of research into metadiscourse features and to complement the picture of persuasion in courtroom discourse, this research investigated boosters in closing arguments delivered by attorneys drawing upon a corpus of high-profile US trials. The article aims to show that attorneys make extensive use of boosters in persuading the jury to return a favorable verdict. Given the focus of the current study, consider boosters as metadiscourse features more closely Holmes conceptualized . . .
  

   

  

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