On Pragmatic Identity Construction of Prosecutors in Criminal Courtroom Discourse

DOI

10.2991/iccessh-17.2017.243How to use a DOI?

Keywords

prosecutors; trial discourse; pragmatic identity

Abstract

According to the theories of pragmatic identity construction, pragmatic identity as a specific social identity is the actual embodiment, application and even an invented concept in the verbal communicative context. In light of the spirit of "Trial Centralism" in the new criminal procedure law, the study involves analysis of the pragmatic identity construction by focusing on the trial discourse of prosecutors. It is discovered in the research that prosecutors have typical discourse expressions in their own legal institutional identity construction.But in the dynamic context of trials, they could also possibly abuse their legal powers arrogate to themselves the rights of other identities and even become law popularization staff to some degree, which, in turn, should be corrected properly in practical trial practice. Only by sticking to their priority role as legal supervisor and to their identity construction as prosecutors can judicial fairness and justice be soundly assured.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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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  - Xia Chen
PY  - 2017/06
DA  - 2017/06
TI  - On Pragmatic Identity Construction of Prosecutors in Criminal Courtroom Discourse
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1040
EP  - 1044
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iccessh-17.2017.243
DO  - 10.2991/iccessh-17.2017.243
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