3. Cooperation in Chinese courtroom discourse

Liao, Meizhen; Sun, Yi‐Feng; Giltrow, Janet; Stein, Dieter

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“…As mentioned before, the development of PB can be said to support Liao's (2004Liao's ( , 2005 Goal-driven Principle. Therefore, its basic tenets are meant to push the narrative towards fast and successful enhancement of one's communicative goals.…”

Section: Tenets Of the Principle Of Believabilitymentioning

confidence: 89%

“…The model developed in this chapter does not refer to a stand-alone principle: it builds on other available linguistic theories, like Grice's (1975) Cooperative Principle (CP) and Liao's (2004) Goal-driven Principle (GP) (see section 13.2.6) which have wellestablished maxims. Our model borrows the naming of the maxims from these two models; but they have been modified to suit the propositions advanced in PB.…”

Section: Principle Of Believability and Its Maximsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, when dealing with forensic data, it is difficult to find one fully-fledged model that can capture all the essentials to help people gain sufficient insights. The PB can be said to oscillate somewhere between Grice's (1975) CP and Liao's (2004Liao's ( , 2005 GP. CP prescribes how rational human beings can cooperate to achieve maximum understanding in a harmonious environment.…”

Section: Principle Of Believability In Relation To Other Linguistic M...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…GP describes goals and goal relationships that exist in conflicting zones that can affect the outcome of the interaction. Liao (2004Liao ( , 2005 notes that a courtroom trial is prominently goal-oriented, where all the parties involved have their own clearly defined goals. These goals exist in three types of relations.…”

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With such a background, the researcher conducted a study on the conviction rate in Malawi. The researcher first got ethical approval from the Registrar of the High Court and Supreme Court of Appeal. It was a two-tier study.Firstly, the researcher went through a total of 122 files of concluded criminal trials registered from May 2016 to June 2019 in Lilongwe and Mzuzu High court registries. Of the cases, 84 were homicide trials which had entered the court for the first time, while the rest (38) were appeal cases from lower courts. Appeal cases were of different types, ranging from defilement, rape, armed robbery, theft by servant and burglary. In these cases, it was discovered that 64 (52.5%) were acquittals and 58 (47.5%) were convictions. Most acquittals were registered in homicide and sexual assault cases where, according to the judgement reports, the Prosecution failed to prove their case beyond reasonable doubt. The statistics on convictions (47.5%) are very low compared to figures registered in advanced countries. For instance, in 2015, the conviction rate in China was pegged at 99.9 percent, while the conviction rate in the United States (US) was around 90 percent (Liao, 2018). These statistics are extremely high and, among other reasons, indicate how strong and sophisticated the prosecution system is in these developed countries.To supplement these observations made at the desk research phase, the researcher decided to observe exactly what occurs in Malawian criminal courtrooms. He then randomly observed 17 live cases in the Mzuzu High Court registry and Nkhatabay First Grade Magistrates' Court, Kasungu Senior Resident Magistrates' Court and Lilongwe Senior Resident Magistrates' Court to appreciate how prosecutors advance their stories. This phase occurred for a period of four months, from August to December 2019. It was observed that the Prosecution struggled to prove their side of the case beyond reasonable doubt, chiefly because they brought in weak witnesses who lacked the ability to control the amount of information to tell in court. Some witnesses also provided overt and plain responses, which showed that they were unaware of the implications of their answers to particular questions. Some responses from the witnesses gave an indication that they were not conversant with the basic court procedure when testifying, or that they were not thoroughly prepared before coming to court.The outcome of the study is a pointer to some of the problems that the Prosecution system in Malawi faces, which eventually leads to the Prosecution losing cases brought to the courts. This likely lowers people's perception of the entire justice system and its fairness. The Principle of Believability (PB) developed in this chapter can help address such problems faced by prosecution in developing countries such as Malawi. By 'believability' , we refer to the extent to which others can accept a narrative as truthful and credible. The model developed can also help different parties in a dispute in how best to pursue their goals for...

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Section: Tenets Of the Principle Of Believabilitymentioning

confidence: 89%

Section: Principle Of Believability and Its Maximsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Principle Of Believability In Relation To Other Linguistic M...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…A bírósági kihallgatásokban alkalmazott interperszonális stratégiák fontosságára már több kutató is felhívta a figyelmet. A hazai szakirodalomban Kengyel (1993) (Liao-Sun 2017). Gu (1994: 181) az együttműködés két szintjét különbözteti meg, így a pragmatikait és a retorikait.…”

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A kutatás nyolc elsőfokú büntetőperes tárgyalás bizonyítási eljárásainak komplex nyelvészeti vizsgálatán alapul, amelyben elsősorban a bírók kihallgatási stratégiái, valamint a vádlottak és tanúk vallomásai kerülnek elemzésre. Az értekezés legfőbb célja, hogy empirikus és kvalitatív kutatási módszerek révén feltérképezze azokat a bírói kihallgatási stratégiákat, amelyek azt segítik elő, hogy a vallomások a lehető legpontosabbak, félreérthetetlenek és befolyásmentesek legyenek. A disszertációban amellett érvelek, hogy ezek a stratégiák kérdésfeltevési mintázatokba rendezhetők. A mintázatok megállapításában egyaránt szerepe van a kérdések formai jellemvonásainak és a kontextusnak, ez utóbbin belül különösen a kérdező céljának, a beszédelőzménynek, a kontextusbeli evidenciáknak, valamint a hallgatókban kiváltott hatásnak. Az értekezés eredményei a nyelvtudomány és a jogtudomány számára egyaránt relevánsak. A nyelvtudomány számára azért, mert a bírósági diskurzus olyan intézményesített nyelvhasználati forma, amely a hétköznapi nyelvhasználattól eltérő speciális jegyeket mutat. A jogtudomány számára pedig azért, mert a nyelvészeti elemzéssel feltárt speciális jegyek tudatos alkalmazása segítheti a bírósági szakemberek munkáját.

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The Role of Linguistic Impression Management: The Case of Hungarian Courtroom Discourses

Varga

2020

Corpus Pragmatics

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This paper aims to present various linguistic strategies of impression management used by Hungarian judges, defendants and witnesses, taking into consideration the characteristics of Hungarian culture, language and legal system. In courtroom proceedings the way the participants construct an impression depends greatly on their institutional roles. Hungarian law belongs to the family of continental systems and the judge has an active role in the questioning. In contrary to the expansively investigated Anglo-American cross-examination where witnesses are questioned by the opposing parties, in Hungarian courtroom proceedings the judge is the first to ask questions from the witnesses and the defendants in an unbiased way. The judges are able to motivate the witnesses to cooperate with them by defending their positive impression construction. In addition, the witnesses can be placed in a more advantageous position as a result of an impression management strategy applied by the judges. The research is based on a corpus collected by the author. It consists of ten Hungarian trials recorded using a voice recorder. Based on the corpus, five types of linguistic impression management strategies were investigated: raising or conveying interest, emotional identification with another's assertion or attitude, highlighting socially approved values, self-superiority and protection, as well as repair work. This research aims to demonstrate the key roles of linguistic impression management strategies in Hungarian courtroom questioning where the judge questions the participants unbiasedly.

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3. Cooperation in Chinese courtroom discourse

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Towards the principle of believability: A new socio-pragmatic model in forensic settings

Towards the principle of believability: A new socio-pragmatic model in forensic settings

Magyar büntetőperes bírósági kihallgatások komplex nyelvészeti elemzése

The Role of Linguistic Impression Management: The Case of Hungarian Courtroom Discourses

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