The courtroom, as the most dramatic setting of legal language, is a rich linguistic domain for research; therefore, a science mapping study of the state of the art of this emerging field is of necessity. By CiteSpace V, the present study provides a comprehensive and up-to-date systematic review of the research on courtroom discourse, as presented by 379 article publications and their 10,538 references in the Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection from 1979 to 2021. According to statistics on publications by year, it appears that courtroom discourse research has experienced a period of silence (1979–1992), followed by an emergent period (1993–2005), before entering a period of considerable growth since 2006. Weak cooperative networks, extensive information base, multiple research fronts, and dynamic hotspots of courtroom discourse research have been discovered. Courtroom discourse research focuses on three core topics: courtroom interpreting, the interaction between law, language, power, and ideology, and the investigation of courtroom trial structures. Linguistic communication issues are prominent in courtroom discourse. As far as courtroom subjects are concerned, there is an audience-oriented turn in the latest research front of courtroom discourse. The research hotspots have shifted from language ontology during the emergent period to consolidating and developing the theoretical foundations of courtroom discourse during the rapid development period. According to keyword clustering, stance studies and miscommunication research are significant research hotspots of courtroom discourse.
Mental health is a significant determinant of people's quality of life (Chaudhury et al., 2018). However, mental health problems are the leading cause of the global burden of disease among all disease groups, accounting for 32.4% of years lived with disability (Vigo et al., 2016). The adverse social and economic costs associated with mental illness are massive, considering the estimation that more than 50% of the populations of middle-and high-income countries will be affected by at least one mental health problem in their lives (Trautmann et al., 2016).According to the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013, in that year China accounted for 17% of the global burden of mental disorders (Charlson et al., 2016). It is estimated that about 17.5% of Chinese people suffer from mental health problems (Que et al., 2019). The country's annual economic burden caused by mental illness increased from US$21.0 billion in 2005 to US$88.8 billion in 2013 (Xu et al., 2016). However, a World Health Organization report (World Health Organization, 2018) suggests that only 50% of global mental illness is recorded, and that China's percentage is far below the average (Que et al., 2019), meaning that the actual number of people suffering from mental illness and the associated economic cost is much larger. Therefore, researchers and policymakers have made significant efforts to investigate approaches that promote and factors that threaten mental health.Urban environments are considered to threaten people's mental health. Peen et al. (2010) found that psychiatric disorders were significantly more common in urban areas than in rural areas. The rapid growth of cities and urban populations is associated with stressors such as overcrowding, environmental pollution, and increased levels of violence in urban areas (Srivastava, 2009). In addition, social and individual stressors associated with urban environments -such as inactive lifestyles, social isolation, and unhealthy eating habits -also increase the burden on people's mental health in urban areas (Carod-Artal, 2017). China is undergoing a rapid process of urbanization: The proportion of its population living in urban areas grew from 35.88% in 2000 to 59.15% in 2018 (World Bank Group, 2018. About half of the growth was the result of rural-urban migrants leaving their homes in the countryside to seek better jobs and living opportunities in urban areas .Since migrants make a significant contribution to urban population growth and their mental health is challenged by various stressors caused by the migration and adaptation process, it is important to understand their mental health journeys in order to promote healthy living in urban China. Studies suggest that depressive symptoms are among the most common mental health problems experienced by Chinese internal migrants (Guo et al., 2017; Mou et al., 2011;. Compared to native urban residents, migrants' mental health is challenged by economic stress, the living environment, the experience of discrimination, and acculturation difficulties in th...
It's well known that good communication is the foundation of any successful relationship, whether personal or professional. It's important both for teachers and students to recognize that their nonverbal communication is the most powerful. The ability to understand and use nonverbal communication is a powerful tool that can help you connect with others, express what you really mean, and build better relationships on campus.
As a social interaction among people, conversation is a necessity for everyday life; furthermore, it is of vital importance to a vivid reflection of a character in literature works. Turn-taking is one of the main aspects in analyzing a conversation, in which participants engage in a talk by taking turns. This essay tries to study four conversations between the main female character Thelma and other characters in the movie "Thelma and Louise" from the perspective of turn-taking syste m in CA, intending to find out what Thelma's character originally is and how she grows afterwards.
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