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| العنوان: |
Linguistic variation in supreme court oral arguments by legal professionals: A novel multi-dimensional analysis. |
| المؤلفون: |
Huang, Yingqi, Sang, Zhonggang |
| المصدر: |
Discourse Studies; Aug2024, Vol. 26 Issue 4, p528-551, 24p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
LINGUISTICS, FORENSIC orations, LEGAL discourse, APPELLATE courts, LANGUAGE & languages |
| مستخلص: |
This study uses the method of novel Multi-Dimensional Analysis to compare the discourses of justices, appellant's attorneys, and respondent's attorneys to provide a corpus-based description of linguistic co-occurrence patterns in their registers during oral arguments based on the extracted seven functional dimensions: (1) Instructive argumentation versus Informational production; (2) Elaborative exposition; (3) Concern with degree; (4) Concern with projection; (5) Narrative versus Non-narrative expression; (6) Impersonal expression; and (7) Stance-focused expression. Three profession-based legal corpora, totaling 32,107,839 words, were built using case transcripts from oral arguments between 1979 and 2014. The results show that justices are more argumentative, concerned with degrees, projection-, and stance-focused than attorneys. Attorneys are more informative, elaborative, narrative, and impersonal than justices. Among attorneys, appellant's attorneys are relatively more informative, elaborative and impersonal, and less projection-concerned than respondent's attorneys. This study has implications for MD analysis, courtroom discourse analysis, language pedagogy, and accounting research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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