Presupposition in Courtroom Discourse

DOI

10.2991/emcs-15.2015.122How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Presupposition; Courtroom discourse; Language strategy

Abstract

From the analysis of the authentic data of the criminal cases, this paper is to investigate the function of the presupposition in qualitative way. The paper shows that presuppositions were used in courtroom inquiry by different participants for the purposes of investigation, confirmation and trapping. The lawyer employs the strategy of presupposition is to undermine the reliance of the testimony and try to reveal the factual situation of the case. For the defendant, he /she will try to identify the presupposition traps in order to avoid answering the presupposition.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Dan Zhang
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TI  - Presupposition in Courtroom Discourse
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Education, Management, Commerce and Society
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 602
EP  - 605
SN  - 2352-5398
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