Interacting with the Expert Witness: Courtroom Epistemics Under a Discourse Analyst’s Lens
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<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84330-4_5" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-030-84330-4_5</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Interacting with the Expert Witness: Courtroom Epistemics Under a Discourse Analyst’s Lens
Original language description
This chapter looks at the interactional behaviour of expert witnesses and counsel acting within the constraints of the adversarial trial. Adopting a discourse-analytic perspective, it demonstrates what stances the witnesses and the counsel adopt and what interactional resources they employ to position themselves vis-à-vis their interactants and their knowledge claims. Drawing on such linguistic concepts as speaker commitment, epistemicity and evidentiality, it examines some of the ways in which expert knowledge is claimed, disclaimed, attributed and contested. It specifically considers the interplay of the pronouns I, you and we with verbal markers of experiential, cognitive and communicative stance (Marín-Arrese, 2009), and with negation. The analysis reveals a correlation between the participants’ roles and communicative goals and the type of stance they adopt during testimony. It thus demonstrates the discursive processes of turning facts and expert opinions into evidence, and explains how the “truth” is constructed in courtroom proceedings.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Language as Evidence: Doing Forensic Linguistics
ISBN
978-3-030-84329-8
Number of pages of the result
26
Pages from-to
105-130
Number of pages of the book
464
Publisher name
Palgrave Macmillan
Place of publication
Cham
UT code for WoS chapter
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