Strategic lexicalization in courtroom discourse: A corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis
Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2023 This paper adopts a corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis approach to explore the pragmatics of lexical categories in courtroom discourse. More specifically, this paper probes the extent to which courtroom interlocutors employ particular lexemes to
Ayman Khafaga
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DEFENSE LAWYERS’ DISCURSIVE STRATEGIES OF CONTROLLING THE LANGUAGE OF THE WITNESSES: QUESTIONING FORMS AND FUNCTIONS IN SOME CRIMINAL COURTS OF OROMIA REGIONAL STATE, ETHIOPIA [PDF]
Comparative Legilinguistics, 2015 In everyday conversation the questioners and answerers are in an approximately symmetrical relationship that questioners do not have the information that they are requesting and the answerers are not obliged to answer.
Ejarra BATU BALCHA
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Dualism of Courtroom Discourses [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2018 The article describes courtroom discourses as dueling constructs of reality. The purpose of the research is to identify and analyze linguistic and discursive means used to create opposing representations of the same criminal events and the same ...
Krapivkina Olga +2 more
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The Role of Prosodic Variation in Courtroom Discourse
مجلة الآداب, 2018 Firthian prosodic analysis asserts the integration of both phonematic units and prosodies in the sense that both constitute one whole of integration between system and structure.
سندس محسن علي
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GENDER IDENTITY IN MIKE ROSS’S TRIAL IN THE AMERICAN TV SERIES THE SUITS [PDF]
Journal of International Legal Communication, 2021 Existing literature has provided a firm dichotomy between language differentials between the male and female gender. Regardless of different contexts and discourse types, these language differences tend to persist.
Sanni Oluwole, Joanna Osiejewicz
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A look at WH-questions in direct and cross-examinations: Authentic vs. TV courtroom language [PDF]
DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2020 Using a corpus-based register approach, this study explores language use of authentic and TV courtroom discourse through the lens of WH-questions, with a focus on direct and cross-examinations.
Meishan Chen, Randi Reppen
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Discursive practice of Chinese criminal adjudication: A genre perspective
Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 2021 Different from ordinary discourse, the institutional nature of courtroom discourse has attracted much scholarly attention in the field of applied linguistics and professional discourse studies.
Wenjie Liu +3 more
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Transgression as a Communication Tool of Influence in American Courtroom Discourse
Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2022 The article aims to identify the types of transgression in courtroom discourse. The study was carried out using discourse analysis as the main method.
Margarita Zaitseva +1 more
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Linguistics and Culture Review, 2021 Since the twentieth century, information has become a particularly powerful tool of influence in all realms of human activities. The sender of the speech seeks to influence their recipients by all available means, both lingual and non-lingual. For this reason, we have placed special emphasis on psychological phenomena that help the speech author to ...
Margaryta Zaitseva, Yurii Zatsnyi
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Impersonalización, modalidad deóntica y discurso judicial: un estudio del modal δεῖ en Lisias
Erga-Logoi, 2021 Impersonalization is a communicative peculiarity of courtroom discourse and the modal verb δεῖ is one of the linguistic devices that encode it in Greek. Δεῖ expresses deontic modality, which includes directive value for the expression of orders and other
Raquel Fornieles Sánchez
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