Pamela Hobbs, Ph.D.
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Hobbs, P. (In press).  Judging by what you’re saying: Judges’ questioning of lawyers as interactive interpretation.  In Candlin, Chris and Srikant Sarangi (eds.), Communication in the Professions. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter Publishers.

 

Hobbs, P. (2009).  Co-constructing the case: Physicians’ responses to parents’ ‘candidate diagnoses’ in pediatric acute-care office visits. Register and Context 2(1): 1-31.

 

Hobbs, P. (2009).  'Une certaine idée de l'Homme, une certaine idée de la France':The rhetorical construction of tolerance in French political discourse. In Bhatia, Vijay and Wagner, Anne (eds.), Diversity and Tolerance in Socio-Legal Contexts: Explorations in the Semiotics of Law. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing, pp. 81-102.


Hobbs, P. (2008). It's not what you say but how you say it: The role of personality and identity in trial success. Critical Discourse Studies 5(3): 231-248.


Hobbs, P. (2008). Managing the division of labor: The discursive construction of treatment in two hospital obstetrical units. Journal of Applied Linguistics 2(3): 273-298 [editorial year 2005].


Hobbs, P. (2008). Discourse in the law. The International Encyclopedia of Communication (ed. Donsbach), Vol, IV. Oxford, UK and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.


Hobbs, P. (2008). Surging ahead to a new way forward: The metaphorical foreshadowing of a policy shift. Discourse & Communication 2(1): 29-56.


Hobbs, P. (2007). Lawyers' use of humor as persuasion. Humor: International Journal of Humor Research 20(2): 123-156. 


(2007). Extraterritoriality and extralegality: The United States Supreme Court and Guantanamo Bay. Text & Talk 27(2): 171-200.


(2007). The communicative functions of the hospital medical chart. In Iedema, R. (ed.), Hospital Communication: Tracing Complexities in Contemporary Health Care Organizations. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 39-66. 


(2007). Miracles of love: The use of metaphor in egg donor ads.  Journal of Sociolinguistics 11(1): 24-52.

 

(2007).  Judges' use of humor as a social corrective.  Journal of Pragmatics 39(1): 50-68.

 

(2005).  Unreasonable  doubt: Manipulating jurors’ perceptions in a closing argument at trial. In Sarat, Austin (Ed.), Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Vol. 35, pp. 109-144. Oxford: JAI Press/Elsevier.

 

(2004).  The role of progress notes in the professional socialization of medical residents.  Journal of Pragmatics 36(9):1579-1607.

 

(2004).  In their own voices: Codeswitching and code choice in the print and online versions of an African-American women’s magazine.  Women and Language 27(1):1-12.

 

(2003).  ‘You must say it for him’: Reformulating a witness’ testimony on cross-examination at trial.  Text 23(4): 477-511.

 

(2003).  The use of evidentiality in physicians’ progress notes.  Discourse Studies 5(4): 451-478.

 

(2003).  ‘Is that what we’re here about?’: A lawyer’s use of impression management in a closing argument at trial.  Discourse & Society 14(3): 273-290. 

 

(2003).  The medium is the message: Politeness strategies in men’s and women’s voice mail messages.  Journal of Pragmatics 35(2): 243-262.

 

(2002).  Tipping the scales of justice: Deconstructing an expert’s testimony on cross-examination.  International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 15(4): 411-424.

 

(2002).  Islands in a string: The use of background knowledge in an obstetrical resident’s notes.  Journal of Sociolinguistics 6(2): 267-274.

              

PDFs of articles:

Islands in a string

Tipping the scales of justice

The medium is the message

'Is that what we're here about?'

The use of evidentiality

'You must say it for him'

In their own voices

The role of progress notes

Judges' use of humor as a social corrective

Lawyers' use of humor as persuasion

Miracles of love

Surging ahead to a new way forward

Managing the division of labor

It's not what you say, it's how you say it

Co-constructing the case

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