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Sentimentalizing and Legal Language. Affect and Emotion in Courtroom Talk

Sentimentalizing and Legal Language (Cover)

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Bens, Jonas – 2017

In The Prosecutor v. Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi, the International Criminal Court tried the destruction of UNESCO World Heritage sites as a war crime for the first time. In this case, the value of things in relation to the value of persons became the central issue. Based on courtroom ethnography conducted during the proceedings and informed by affect and emotion research, this article identifies the rhetorical practice of sentimentalizing persons and things as an important process of legal meaning-making. Through sentimentalizing, all parties rhetorically produce normative arrangements of bodies by way of emotionally differentiating the relevant persons, things, and other entities from and affectively relating them to each other. Sentimentalizing provides an affective-emotional frame in which to determine the degree of guilt and innocence, justice and injustice.

Titel
Sentimentalizing and Legal Language
Verfasser
Bens, Jonas
Verlag
SFB 1171 Affective Societies
Ort
Berlin
Datum
2017
Kennung
DOI: 10.17169/refubium-25145
Erschienen in
Working Paper SFB 1171 Affective Societies 04/17
Sprache
eng
Art
Text