Court Q&A and Interactive Research

Author: Liao Meizhen
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: Whether in the adversarial or inquisitorial trial systems, questioning is a vital part of the court's discourse and even a dynamic, realistic, and practical component of the entire judicial system. However, neither in foreign countries nor domestically, there has been a systematic study of court questioning from an interactive perspective. This book attempts to achieve the following objectives by analyzing the transcripts of 13 recorded public court trials (including criminal, civil, and administrative cases) through a combination of speech act theory (primary), discourse analysis, and corpus linguistics (secondary):
- Revealing the interactive mechanisms between questioners and answerers in court trials and the structural characteristics of questioning interactions in court trials.
- Revealing the interactive mechanisms, structural characteristics, and strategies within questioners and answerers in court trials.
- Describing the discourse form conflicts in court questioning interactions and revealing their characteristics, causes, and interactive reasoning mechanisms.
- Explaining the relationship between questioning interactions and purposes.
- Exploring the cooperative issues in questioning interactions.
- Revealing the models and current status of Chinese court trials after reforms, from the perspectives of questioning and question distribution.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 Introduction
Section 1 Overview of Related Research
Section 2 Overview of the Book's Research
Chapter 2 Types of Questioning and Answering: An Overview Outside the Context
Section 1 Questions
Section 2 Answers
Chapter 3 Questioning and Answering in the Current State of Court Trials
Section 1 Methods and Approaches
Section 2 Comprehensive Analysis of the Corpus
Section 3 Conclusion
Chapter 4 Interactive Structure of Questioning and Answering in Court Trials
Section 1 Analysis Model
Section 2 Question-Answer Conversion Structure
Section 3 Conclusion
Chapter 5 Discourse Conflict in Questioning and Answering Interactions: Overlaps and Interruptions
Section 1 Overview
Section 2 Interruptions
Section 3 Overlaps
Section 4 Overlapping Interruptions
Section 5 Conclusion
Chapter 6 Questioning: Intramodal Interaction
Section 1 Questioning Constraints
Section 2 Speech Act Research on Questions
Section 3 Questions and Questioners
Section 4 Questioning Strategies
Section 5 Conclusion
Chapter 7 Answering: Intramodal Interaction
Section 1 Answering Constraints
Section 2 Speech Act Research on Answers
Section 3 Answering Strategies
Section 4 Answers and Answerers
Section 5 Conclusion
Chapter 8 Interaction Between Questioning and Answering and Purpose
Section 1 Human Behavior Purposefulness: Discourse Analysis; Rationale of the Purpose Principle
Section 2 Research on the Relationship Between Purpose and Discourse
Section 3 Relationship Between Participants' Purposes in Court Discourse Activities
Section 4 Purpose, Purpose Relationship, and Questioning
Section 5 Relationship Between Purpose and Question-Answer Conversion Structure
Section 6 Conclusion
Chapter 9 Interaction Between Questioning and Answering and Cooperation
Section 1 Grice: "Cooperative Principle"
Section 2 Court Discourse and the Cooperative Principle: Resonance, Contradiction, and Development
Section 3 Cooperation Between Conflicting Parties
Section 4 Degree of Cooperation
Section 5 Relationship Between Cooperative Principles and Rules in Court Trials
Section 6 Conclusion
Chapter 10 Questioning, Answering, and Reasoning
Section 1 Overview
Section 2 Conventional Reasoning Patterns
Section 3 Questioning-Answering Interactive Reasoning
Section 4 Conclusion
Chapter 11 Conclusion
Section 1 Implications of This Study for General Linguistic Research and Discourse Analysis
Section 2 Implications of This Study for Judicial Personnel
References
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