#3845. Facts into faults: The grammar of guilt in jury deliberations

September 2026publication date
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Language and Linguistics;
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Anthropology;
Communication;
Social Psychology;
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Abstract:
This research focuses on a specific conversational device jurors use to do their work: conditional-contrastive inculpations (CCIs), whereby the defendant’s actions are compared unfavorably to what a normal, innocent person would have done, with the implication that the discrepancy indicates guilt. We examine the logic, variants, sequential precursors, and immediate consequences of this phenomenon in two real-life criminal juries deliberating the same charges. This study offers a rare glimpse into the operation of real juries, and specifically the way in which they appropriate a practice from ordinary conversation in order to perform the unordinary work demanded of them by the legal system.
Keywords:
Common sense; conversation analysis; deliberation; institutional talk; juries

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