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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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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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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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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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2012
AbstractThis article examines courtroom discourse in China in terms of its three components: the contextual, the interactional, and the propositional. After briefly introducing the Chinese legal culture and system, it considers courtroom questioning and interaction patterns as well as a courtroom judgment.
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AbstractThis article examines courtroom discourse in China in terms of its three components: the contextual, the interactional, and the propositional. After briefly introducing the Chinese legal culture and system, it considers courtroom questioning and interaction patterns as well as a courtroom judgment.
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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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A Critical Analysis of Chinese Courtroom Discourse
The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 2011This 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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Impoliteness in Early Modern English courtroom discourse
Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 2006The paper investigates whether the notion of impoliteness worked out for synchronic pragmatics is also applicable in diachronic pragmatics. An analysis of two Early Modern English court trial records demonstrates that the answer is positive provided some new dimensions are added.
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Courtroom Discourse: A Case Study of the Linguistic Strategies in Brunei Courtrooms
2016This chapter explores the role of language in the Brunei Magistrates’ Court and High Court . It illustrates the linguistic strategies employed by the various courtroom participants—judges , counsels , defendants and interpreters —to effectively serve their purpose in attempting to ensure that justice is done in these courts. The methodology is based on
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Power in Early Modern English courtroom discourse
2010The paper discusses power in Early Modern English courtroom. A few levels of linguistic analysis are examined for the occurrence of the exponents of power. As regards lexicon, it is the specific vocabulary which creates the social distance between the interrogators and the interrogated. My hypothesis is that the vocabulary items include not only what I
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