Licoppe2014a
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Christian Licoppe |
| Title | Two modes of referring to the case file in the courtroom: The use of indirect reported text and text-as-addressed speech in case summaries |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Journal | Language & Communication |
| Volume | 36 |
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| Pages | 83–96 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.langcom.2013.10.001 |
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Abstract
This paper analyzes summaries of the written case file which judges produce at the onset of pre-parole pluridisciplanary hearings for assessing the future dangerousness of an inmate. Such summaries of the case file are a highly reflexive discursive practice, as the inmate who appears before the committee is simultaneously the object of the written expert assessments that are re-enacted by the judge and the recipient of these reenactments. Both the production of the summary as an extended turn-at-talk and the procedures for referring to the file are sensitive to this “participative dilemma”. Two different modes for referring to the file are identified: “indirect reported text” and “text-as-addressed speech.” Each has different sequential implications and invokes different epistemic domains and asymmetries.
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