Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of figures -- 1 Introduction -- 2 This is not a course in trial practice: Multimodal participation in objections -- 3 She does not flee the house: Poetic rhythms of space, path, and motion -- 4 Historical voices, collective memory, and interdiscursive trauma in the legal order -- 5 Language, gesture and power in closing argument -- 6 Unless he has three or four arms: Enacting evidence -- 7 Conclusion -- Transcription conventions used -- References -- Index