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Literature, Linguistics & Criticism

Strategic lexicalization in courtroom discourse: A corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis

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Article: 2217585 | Received 13 Dec 2022, Accepted 21 May 2023, Published online: 05 Jun 2023

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