Linguistic variation in supreme court oral arguments by legal professionals
A novel multi-dimensional analysis
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 7750786 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Yingqi Huang (0009-0000-1567-5578, Xi’an Jiaotong University, PR China), Zhonggang Sang (0000-0002-0105-4268, Xi’an Jiaotong University, PR China, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2024 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Fascículo | 4 |
| Páginas | 528-551 |
| Data de publicação | 2024-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Discourse Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 1461-4456 • E-ISSN: 1461-7080 |
| Editora | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14614456231221075 |
| OpenAlex | W4391420349 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 5 |
| Referências citadas | 31 |
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
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