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Charrow, Veda R.; Charrow, Robert – 1976
This paper discusses the results of part of an ongoing project studying an aspect of real world language usage, the comprehension of standard jury instructions. Problems in the comprehension of these instructions include the memory load that they impose, the fact that most instructions are read only once, and the fact that instructions are written…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Court Litigation, Grammar, Language Patterns