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Formulations in Chinese criminal courtroom interaction

Text & Talk
Abstract This study investigates the interactional functions and properties of formulation sequences in Chinese criminal courtroom using the methods of Conversation Analysis. The data corpus for this study are audio recordings of five criminal trials heard in China.
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How Does Interpreter’s Intonation Affect the Pragmatics of Courtroom Questions? A Case Study of Chinese-English Court Interpreting

New Frontiers in Translation Studies, 2023
Xin Liu, Chunli Wang
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Criminal Defense in Chinese Courtrooms

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 2013
Scholars in the field of Chinese criminal procedure law study have long decried the meager legal protection afforded to criminal defendants on trial and the hapless status of Chinese criminal defense attorneys in the courtroom. Unfortunately, very little empirical evidence was available to shed light on how criminal defense was carried out in Chinese ...
Bin, Liang, Ni Phil, He
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Arguing with otherness: intertextual construction of the attorney stance in the Chinese courtroom

Text & Talk - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language, Discourse & Communication Studies, 2011
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Lawyer Evaluation in Chinese Courtroom

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Human Rights Lawyering in Chinese Courtrooms

The Chinese Journal of Comparative Law, 2014
Human rights lawyering in China can be categorized into three ideal types: moderate lawyering, critical lawyering and radical lawyering. Lawyers take corresponding political stance and use different strategies in their legal representation. This article uses three examples to illustrate the different types of lawyering and the degree to which the ...
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A Critical Analysis of Chinese Courtroom Discourse

The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 2011
This thesis analyzes the formal features of Chinese courtroom discourse and their interaction with the ideologies of, and power relations between, the subjects in the courtroom. Based on Fairclough’s (1992, 1995，2001) three-dimensional approach to discourse and Liao’s (2003) schema of the court trial1, the author developed a three-dimensional framework
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Marginalization of Chinese in the Chinese Courtroom: The Need of Chinese Training for Legal Professionals in Hong Kong

Asian Journal of Legal Education, 2015
As a former British colony, Hong Kong has adopted the common law system for more than 150 years and English was the sole language of the law in Hong Kong before the 1970s. To acknowledge the language rights of the majority of the city’s population whose mother tongue is Chinese, the Judiciary Administration of Hong Kong introduced Chinese as a trial ...
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Judicial jigsaw and power dynamics: a cognitive-functional analysis of Chinese courtroom discourse

International Journal of Legal Discourse
Abstract In the courtroom, participants engage in a battle of power through rhetoric, where appraisal and cognitive theories serve as discursive weapons. By leveraging attitudinal resources and conceptual metaphors, participants showcase their ideologies, seeking to bolster their position in the power dynamics of the courtroom, striving ...
Yuyao Sun, Xiaobin Zhu, Kanglong Liu
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3. Cooperation in Chinese courtroom discourse

2017
Meizhen Liao, Yadi Sun
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