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Implicature and Speech Act Analysis in Erbil City Courtroom Discourse

Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences
This study investigates the use of implicature and speech acts in Erbil City courtroom. Implicature is the implied meaning in addition to literal meaning of expressions, while speech acts are communicative actions such as asserting, commanding, or ...
Gala Qasim Hasan, Dilovan Sayfuddin Saady   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

EVOLUTION OF MYTHOLOGEMS IN AMERICAN COURTROOM DISCOURSE

Current issues of linguistics and translation studies, 2021
The paper is devoted to the study of mythologems in English courtroom discourse. The phenomenon of mythologems was analyzed on the authentic documents of the American trials of 1894, 1921, and 1969-1970. The conceptual understanding of the changes taking place is impossible without knowledge and understanding of the nature, essence, properties and ...
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Beyond Robodebt: Media Representations of Welfare and Fraud Before and After the Robodebt Royal Commission

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's Robodebt scheme, an automated debt recovery program introduced in 2016, was exposed by the Robodebt Royal Commission (RC) as a serious failure of public administration and source of significant harm for thousands of Australians. Through a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Australian news media, this study explores whether the RC'
Rebecca Coleman‐Hicks, Georgia van Toorn   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Politeness in the courtroom discourse

Foresic Research & Criminology International Journal, 2019
Whether in China or in any other parts of the world and whether in ancient times or in today rsquo s society politeness was and still is a very important social or interpersonal phenomenon which helps to maintain social equilibrium and friendly relations which enables us to assume that our interlocutors are being cooperative in the first place ...
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Unknowable bodies, unthinkable sexualities: lesbian and transgender legal invisibility in the Toronto women's bathhouse raid [PDF]

, 2009
Although litigation involving sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination claims has generated considerable public attention in recent years, lesbian and transgender bodies and sexualities still remain largely invisible in Anglo-American courts.
Addis, Richard, Arnup, Katherine, Boyd, Susan B., Chung, Matthew, Dean, Mitchell, Durnford, Frank, Findlay, Barbara, Gallant, Chanelle, Gallant, Paul, Gilbert, Sky, Hammonds, Evelynn, Haraway, Donna, Kinsman, Gary, Lamble, Sarah, Lloyd, Abigail W., Lyons, Jeffrey S., Mann, Rebecca, Millar, Cal, Namaste, Viviane, Newman, Dwight, Ontario Human Rights Commission, Phelan, Peggy, Robson, Ruthann, Robson, Ruthann, Sarah Lamble, Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, Sharpe, Andrew, Sorainen, Antu, Spade, Dean, Stychin, Carl, Taussig, Michael, Valverde, Mariana, Whittle, Stephen   +32 more
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‘Giving Back to Our Community’: The Retention of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Disability Workforce in New South Wales, Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia require culturally responsive services. The Australian government has committed to establishing strategies to increase the size of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander disability workforce; however, there is scant research on the factors influencing retention.
J. Gwynn, J. Gilroy, S. Peter, F. Talbot, K. Bulkeley, C. Alcorso, K. Gwynne, B. Rambaldini, A. Haines, M. Lincoln   +9 more
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Leaving no room for doubt and exceptions: closing arguments through the lens of metadiscourse

Cultura, Lenguaje y Representación
The closing argument in criminal trials allows for unique metadiscourse analysis opportunities. Yet despite these opportunities, it seems to be an understudied linguistic genre which requires more research into its interactional features.
Olga Boginskaya
doaj   +1 more source

Honesty Without Truth: Lies, Accuracy, and the Criminal Justice Process [PDF]

, 2018
Focusing on “lying” is a natural response to uncertainty but too narrow of a concern. Honesty and truth are not the same thing and conflating them can actually inhibit accuracy.
Griffin, Lisa Kern
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Judicial Perspectives on Neurodiversity in Queensland Courts, Tribunals and Commissions: Experiences With Disclosure and Witness Credibility

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Little is known about the impacts of the disclosure, or the non‐disclosure, of medical conditions associated with neurodiversity in the context of court proceedings and hearings before tribunals and commissions. This paper examines the experiences of twenty‐three Queensland Judges, Magistrates, and Tribunal and Commission Members with ...
Danielle Bozin, Karen A. Sullivan, Vincent Denault, Catherine Kennon, Lucy Cradduck, Rachel Hews   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring Challenges and Solutions in English-to-Chinese Courtroom Translation: Insights From the Tokyo Trial and Implications for Translator Training

SAGE Open
This study investigates translation challenges and solutions in English-to-Chinese courtroom translation from the perspective of translators, specifically within the context of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE), using ...
Shuangjiao Wu, Mansour Amini, Omer Hassan Ali Mahfoodh   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source