Discursive practice of Chinese criminal adjudication: A genre perspective

Wenjie Liu; Zhengrui Han; Haiqing Chen; Wei Ren

Discursive practice of Chinese criminal adjudication: A genre perspective

Liu, Wenjie ^[1] ; Han, Zhengrui ^[2] ; Chen, Haiqing ^[3] ; Ren, Wei ^[1]
1. [1] Beihang University
  
  Beihang University
  
  China
2. [2] Jinan University
  
  Jinan University
  
  China
3. [3] Dalian University of Technology
  
  Dalian University of Technology
  
  China
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Localización: Círculo de lingüística aplicada a la comunicación, ISSN-e 1576-4737, Nº. 86, 2021 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Monograph: Multilingualism at work in China), págs. 69-80
Idioma: inglés
DOI: 10.5209/clac.75496
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- 体裁视域下中国刑事审判的话语实践
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  Different from ordinary discourse, the institutional nature of courtroom discourse has attracted much scholarly attention in the field of applied linguistics and professional discourse studies. Previous studies have examined the lexico-grammatical features and asymmetric power relations inherent in courtroom communication. However, little research has investigated the hybridizing construction of judges’ discourse and the contextual clues that may shape such discursive construction. Under the framework of Critical Genre Analysis (Bhatia, 2017), this study examines 25 video recordings of criminal court trials in the Chinese mainland. The findings indicate a reciprocal relationship between the interdiscursive mechanism of judges’ discourse in criminal trials and the relevant social, cultural, and institutional background. The study also discusses the constituents of the overall courtroom discourse against the background of the social and political realities of the Chinese mainland
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  与日常话语不同，法庭话语的机构性特征引起了应用语言学和专业话语研究领域的广泛关注。以往的研究考察了法庭交际中的词汇语法特征和不对称的权力关系；然而，探究法官话语的混合性建构和可能形成这种结构的语境背景的研究却不多。在批判性体裁分析的框架下（Bhatia, 2017），本研究对中国大陆25个刑事法庭审判视频记录进行了研究。研究结果表明，法官刑事审判话语的互文性特征与相关的社会、文化和制度背景存在交互关系。研究还讨论了整个法庭话语的组成部分，以及中国大陆社会和政治现状的幕后构建。
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