Interacting with the Expert Witness: Courtroom Epistemics Under a Discourse Analyst’s Lens

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-84330-4_5" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-84330-4_5</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Interacting with the Expert Witness: Courtroom Epistemics Under a Discourse Analyst’s Lens

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Interacting with the Expert Witness: Courtroom Epistemics Under a Discourse Analyst’s Lens

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Language as Evidence: Doing Forensic Linguistics

ISBN

978-3-030-84329-8

Počet stran výsledku

26

Strana od-do

105-130

Počet stran knihy

464

Název nakladatele

Palgrave Macmillan

Místo vydání

Cham

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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