Ponte Academic Journal May 2016, Volume 72, Issue 5 |
DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS OF VERBAL AND NON- VERBAL PERCEPTION TECHNIQUES IN OPEN COURTS OF IRAN: CRIMINAL COURT DISCOURSE ANALYSIS (FORENSIC LINGUISTICS) Author(s): Azime Zaeri ,Ferdows Aghagol zadeh J. Ponte - May 2016 - Volume 72 - Issue 5 doi: 10.21506/j.ponte.2016.5.2 Abstract: The present study is an Analytical- descriptive study, which has been conducted in the courts by participation of the accused in a field method with the purpose of surveying various perception techniques. The data of the study have been collected from 20 open court sessions in shiraz city which include 1468 sentences, by and large, among which 351 sentences belong to the judge 987 belong to the accused and 120 to the plaintiffs. In the present study only the sentences used by the accused, have been assessed from verbal and non- verbal perception techniques analysis point of view. In this study the researcher will be trying to answer the following questions: what verbal techniques do the accused use to perceive the judges in the courts? What non- verbal techniques do the accused use to perceive the judges in the courts? The findings of the study indicate that, the accused use verbal techniques of exclusion and inclusion and non- verbal techniques of crime acceptance, remorse expression, crying, judge�s feelings arousal, silence and so on, in order to perceive the judge.
Key words: critical discourse analysis, perception, verbal techniques, non- verbal techniques
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