<i>Say</i> and stancetaking in courtroom talk: a corpus-assisted study

Szczyrbak, Magdalena

doi:10.3366/cor.2016.0090

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“…In this case, the degree of involvement in the relations of university life activity acts as an objective basis, a kind of foundation of a particular type of lifestyle. Not being the only fundamental basis, the degree of inclusion is at the same time the most important of them [13].…”

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Linguistic and socio-cultural adaptation of foreign students at university

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The article deals with the issues of linguistic and cultural adaptation of students, the problems they face in a new environment. According to the results of the research, the patterns of connections between the student's personality, socio-cultural skills, academic performance and adaptation to new linguistic and cultural realities are revealed. The process of adaptation is manifested in the verbal behavior of foreign-speaking students. Experimental studies show the length of social and cultural contact, the connection with the former mates, who remained at home. This makes it possible to model the process of replacing old contacts with new ones, how this process affects learning, to what extent the formation of a team is determined by the socio-demographic characteristics of students

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“…Most corpus-based studies vary in the degree to which corpus analysis is accompanied or augmented by other types of investigation. It is relatively seldom that research into evaluative language is carried out based on corpus analysis alone [45] For example, Szczyrbak [100] focuses on phrases with 'say' as indicative of the alignment function of stance-taking. The paper identifies the frequency of each phrase in the corpus of libel proceedings before a UK court.…”

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Corpus Linguistics in Legal Discourse

Goźdź-Roszkowski

2021

Int J Semiot Law

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There are many different ways in which modern Corpus Linguistics can be used to enrich and broaden our understanding of legal discourse. Based on the central principle of co-occurrence and co-selection in language construction, this paper reviews current applications of Corpus Linguistics in the area of legal discourse focusing on issues ranging from phraseology, variation in legal discourse, legal translation, register and genre perspectives on legal discourse, legal discourse in forensic contexts to evaluative language in judicial settings. It revisits the notion of ‘corpus’ and it highlights the relevance of various types of legal corpora and computer tools in legal linguistic research.

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“…Similarly, qualitative work in courtroom discourse has been augmented by the quantitative analysis made possible by corpus techniques, as in the examination of important high-frequency individual words and their usage across single trials or a number of trials (e.g. Tkačuková 2015;Szczyrbak 2016). In addition, corpora have been built and analysed which comprise some of the more underexplored aspects of trial discourse, such as closing arguments or summing up (e.g.…”

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Corpus approaches to forensic linguistics

Wright¹

2020

The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics

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Corpus linguistics is 'the study of language based on examples of real life language use' (McEnery and Wilson 1996: 1), with the examples collected, stored and analysed as a corpus (pl. corpora). Corpora can run into millions or even billions of words, and therefore require the use of specialised software to quantitatively and qualitatively analyse them. Corpus linguistics is a set of methods and procedures that can be applied in the analysis of a range of texts and contexts that forensic linguists may be interested in examining.Since the advent of modern-day corpus linguistics, many fields have benefitted from its ability to identify patterns in text, add evidence to support qualitative analyses and explore large datasets in ways not previously possible. However, uptake in forensic linguistics has been relatively slow. This is likely due to a number of factors, not least the fact that the types of data that forensic linguists work with are often not in abundance. Whether it is courtroom or police interview transcripts, or evidential texts such as text messages, emails, letters or threats, the data (at least in most parts of the world) is scarce, and many researchers spend years to source and collect precious datasets, often after developing close working relationships with organisations or individuals who have access to data that are otherwise in short supply. Some of the earliest and most seminal work in forensic linguistics is corpus-based. In the work which coined the term 'forensic linguistics', Svartvik (1968) used a corpus approach to analyse a set of disputed witness statements in a murder case. Similarly, in his analysis of the Derek Bentley statement, a watershed case for forensic linguistics, Coulthard (1994) used specialised corpora of ordinary witness statements and police statements, along with the much larger spoken element of the COBUILD corpus, to question the authorship of Bentley's disputed statement. With a few notable exceptions, including early adopters of corpus techniques such as Kredens (2002) in authorship analysis and Cotterill (2003) andHeffer (2005) in courtroom discourse analysis, there was relatively little corpus linguistic work in forensic linguistics in the twenty years since Coulthard (1994). The second decade of the twenty-first century, however, has seen a healthy increase in the amount of corpus-based

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Say and stancetaking in courtroom talk: a corpus-assisted study

Cited by 11 publications

References 29 publications

Linguistic and socio-cultural adaptation of foreign students at university

Linguistic and socio-cultural adaptation of foreign students at university

Corpus Linguistics in Legal Discourse

Corpus approaches to forensic linguistics

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