Language in the courtroom: a comparative study of American and Romanian criminal trials

Authors

  • Marcela Alina Fărcaşiu University ‘Politehnica’ of Timisoara

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/ijsll.v19i1.109

Keywords:

courtroom, criminal trials, witness examination, ethnography, question-answer adjacency pairs, sequence pattern

Abstract

The goal of this thesis was to analyse the speech event known as witness examination, occurring in the courtroom, in two differing systems of justice, the adversarial (American) and the inquisitorial (Romanian) ones.

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Published

2012-06-22

Issue

Vol. 19 No. 1 (2012)

Section

Thesis Abstracts

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How to Cite

Fărcaşiu, M. A. (2012). Language in the courtroom: a comparative study of American and Romanian criminal trials. International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 19(1), 109-112. https://doi.org/10.1558/ijsll.v19i1.109