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Interpreting and Markers in Nigerian Courtroom Discourse

open access: yesAdvances in Language and Literary Studies, 2020
It has already been affirmed that power and control embedded in questions varies according to question type (Luchjenbroers 1999, Rigney 1999 etc). The paper ranges question types according to their degree of control and observes that those with high degree of control lost their power and control through the process of interpreting.
Farinde Raifu Olanrewaju   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

The Democratization of Social Media A Critical Perspective in Technology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Social Media is part of contemporary technology that is the contentious subject matter within the society. It is paradoxical when social media should provide techniques and objects that serve human being in a positive way, but at the same time, it can ...
Mahaswa, Rangga Kala
core  

Participatory Policy Development: Reflections on Designing the Strong Roots for Our Futures Program in Victoria

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we trace the journey to create the Strong Roots for our Futures Program, a government program to resource and support Traditional Owners to undertake a range of activities in areas where no state recognition existed. We provide a background to state recognition in Victoria before considering the program design, leading to an ...
Nell Reidy   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Allocution, sentencing, and viewers’ comments in YouTube-mediated trials of convicted young murderers: an appraisal-sentiment analysis

open access: yesLanguage and Semiotic Studies
Courtroom discourse, a highly conventionalized genre, integrates numerous linguistic affordances and semiotic resources. Courtroom interactions provide a rich environment for displaying power, identity, ideology, and affect.
El Attar Abeer Aly, Abdo Muhammad S.
doaj   +1 more source

Accused War Criminals qua Perpetrators: On the Visual Signification of Criminal Guilt

open access: yesJournal of Perpetrator Research, 2019
This article examines media representations of two high-ranking defendants from Serbia indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for war crimes in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Katarina Ristić
doaj   +1 more source

The Extremist Internet Discourse: Legal, Scientific and Practical Aspects of Forensic Linguistic Analysis

open access: yesТеория и практика судебной экспертизы, 2020
The paper presents a discussion of legal, scientific, and practical aspects of forensic linguistic analysis of the Internet extremist discourse as practiced at present and might be improved in the future.
E. I. Galyashina
doaj   +1 more source

Identity, Discourse, and Rehabilitation in Parole Hearings in the United States [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Research on parole in the United States has primarily followed a deterministic approach, favoring an examination of variables contributing to release.
Lavin-Loucks, Danielle   +1 more
core   +1 more source

The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Myth of Civic Republicanism: Interrogating the Ideology of Antebellum Legal Ethics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Ethicists, historians and sociologists have generally accepted the premise that the legal profession did not offer strong, public defenses of the adversary ethic (ethically neutral service of clients) until after 1870 when professional elites sought to ...
Spaulding, Norman W.
core   +2 more sources

Realising Aboriginal Community Controlled Approaches to Child Reunification

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reunification rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) in Australia are critically low, even though reunification is the preferred permanency outcome for children following removal, and despite a range of mechanisms and strategies ostensibly to support effective reunification. To better understand the
B. J. Newton   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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