Quoting from the case file: how intertextual practices shape discourse at various stages in the legal trajectory [PDF]
, 2014 Criminal trial hearings are communicative events that are densely intertextually structured. In the course of a trial hearing, written documents such as police records of statements made by suspects, witnesses and experts are extensively referred to ...
D'hondt, Sigurd, van der Houwen, Fleur
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Addressee as a key factor of courtroom discourse production [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2019 The article analyses the role of the addressee as a factor determining discourses of legal professionals. The important role of this factor makes it necessary to account for the effect of the addressee on discourse production, identify linguistic and ...
Krapivkina Olga +3 more
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Libelling Oscar Wilde: The case of Regina vs. John Sholto Douglas [PDF]
, 2011 This paper explores the 1895 libel trial between Oscar Wilde (literary personality) and the Marquis of Queensbury (father of Wilde's close friend). Focussing on the lead defence counsel's cross-examination of Wilde (plaintiff), I demonstrate that Carson ...
Culpeper Jonathan +3 more
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Linguistic Contradiction: Power and Politeness in Courtroom Discourse
Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie, 1995 This article examines the courtroom as a workplace using Brown and Levinson's politeness model. It is argued that while the model is a valuable tool for analyzing courtroom discourse, the courtroom, as well as institutional and organizational contexts ...
Linda Sanderson
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Playing the language game of family mediation: Implications for mediator ethics [PDF]
, 2017 Over the last 20 to 30 years, the use of mediation in Australia to resolve family disputes has grown significantly. Since the 2006 reforms to the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth), family dispute resolution, a common form of which is family mediation, has ...
Crowe, Jonathan, Field, Rachael
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ARCHITECTONICS OF AMERICAN COURTROOM DISCOURSE: AN IMPLICIT WAY OF CONTENT MANAGEMENT [PDF]
Alfred Nobel University Journal of PhilologyThe article examines the specificity of courtroom discourse as a communicative integrity, which is manifested in the comprehensive coherence of its information components.
Margaryta O. Zaitseva, Stina Ericsson
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THE ACCUSED IS ENTERING THE COURTROOM: THE LIVE-TWEETING OF A MURDER TRIAL. [PDF]
, 2018 © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis GroupThe use of social media is now widely accepted within journalism as an outlet for news information. Live tweeting of unfolding events is standard practice. In March 2014, Oscar Pistorius went on
Allan S. +18 more
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ON JUDGE’S TRIAL DISCOURSE IN CHINESE COURTROOM FROM GOAL-DRIVEN PERSPECTIVE
Comparative Legilinguistics, 2019 Any act has certain goal, and the judge’s trial discourse is a structured and layered goal system. Judges normally adopt some discourse strategies to reach their trial goals.
Qing ZHANG
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Whatever Next? Women's Rights in Sáenz de Heredia's Los derechos de la mujer(1962) [PDF]
, 2012 This article examines José Luis Sáenz de Heredia's film Los derechos de la mujer (1962), which raises questions about empowering women within the legal arena and mediates historical and cultural anxieties that circulated in more general terms after the ...
Louis, Anja
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The voice is the message: Emotional practices and court rhetoric in early twentieth century Germany [PDF]
, 2018 This paper illustrates that emotions were considered a central component of juristic work in German legal thought around 1900, showing how emotional practices of judges were reshaped when they were confronted with new socio-political demands in the early
Schnädelbach, S.
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