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Discourse analysis and courtroom interaction
Discourse Processes, 1980The discourse of defendants in courtroom proceedings was examined by means of tape recordings from Viennese trials. A method for systematic study is expounded and applied. It emerges that discourse is a major determinant in the outcome of a trial, because it heavily controls the role projection defendants can attain: social class, income ...
Ruth Emily Wodak
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Cameroon Courtroom Discourse Analysis
2021This chapter presents the data collected in Cameroon courtrooms. I analysed and discussed the data using the Speech Act Theory and the Interactional Sociolinguistic principles of knowledge of institutional codes of conducts. The analysis demonstrates lay litigants violating two felicity conditions (Conventionality and Actuality conditions) and legal ...
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Intertextuality in Chinese Courtroom Discourse
Chinese Semiotic Studies, 2014Abstract Intertextuality, an important concept in semiotics, refers to the property texts have of being full of snatches of other texts. This paper analyzes specific and generic intertextuality of Chinese courtroom discourse. In the analysis of specific intertextuality, it is found that 1) “specific and exact news source” and “implicit ...
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An investigation of interruption in courtroom discourse
International Journal of Legal Discourse, 2018Abstract In this research project, we introduce an interdisciplinary study of language and the law—forensic linguistics. In the field of forensic linguistics, the topic of discourse probably receives the most study. The discourse phenomenon we investigated is interruption, commonly regarded as a display of power and control.
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An analysis of attitude in chinese courtroom discourse
Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, 2018AbstractAttitude is an important resource for courtroom discourse to perform interpersonal functions. This paper analyzes the attitude expressions in the audio recording transcripts of eight trials and finds that: judgement is the most important way for courtroom participants to express attitude, followed by appreciation, while affect is the least ...
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2014
This chapter is dedicated to Polish courtroom discourse. It examines the language used in courtroom interaction by the judge and counsels for the prosecution and defense in a criminal trial under Polish civil law by means of the concepts and methods of research developed in: (a) the ethnography of communication, (b) conversation analysis, and (c ...
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This chapter is dedicated to Polish courtroom discourse. It examines the language used in courtroom interaction by the judge and counsels for the prosecution and defense in a criminal trial under Polish civil law by means of the concepts and methods of research developed in: (a) the ethnography of communication, (b) conversation analysis, and (c ...
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Explorations of Courtroom Discourse
2014The foremost aim of this chapter is to introduce the reader into courtroom discourse. The chapter commences with a statement of the major objectives of this book and an explanation of the rationale for research in this field. It concisely reviews previous explorations into courtroom discourse and describes how the current study diverges from prior ...
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2014
Chapter 2 is dedicated to American courtroom discourse with particular emphasis on the language used by judges and attorneys for the prosecution and the defense in the adversarial procedure of witness examination in the criminal trial under U.S. common law.
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Chapter 2 is dedicated to American courtroom discourse with particular emphasis on the language used by judges and attorneys for the prosecution and the defense in the adversarial procedure of witness examination in the criminal trial under U.S. common law.
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2012
AbstractSometimes ordinary people just do not understand the meaning of the language that they hear in courtrooms. This is problematic because courts are places of great power: a person's liberty can be restricted, or their life taken or property lost. Legal discourse is largely based on written texts that are invisible to laypeople in contact with the
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AbstractSometimes ordinary people just do not understand the meaning of the language that they hear in courtrooms. This is problematic because courts are places of great power: a person's liberty can be restricted, or their life taken or property lost. Legal discourse is largely based on written texts that are invisible to laypeople in contact with the
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