David, Maya Khemlani and Gan, Kah Hui and David, Yoong and Singh, Balbir (2010) Linguistic Accommodation: Perception of Malaysian Lawyers. In: Proceedings of 2010 International Conference on Humanities, Historical and Social Sciences (CHHSS 2010), 26-28 February, 2010, Singapore. (Unpublished)
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Abstract
Language Accommodation is “we adjust our communicational behavior to maintain integrity, distance or identity” (Giles and Coupland,1991:66). Do lawyers shift their discourse norms in order to obtain the information required from witnesses in a courtroom? In this study, 24 lawyers were interviewed to elicit the strategies and discourse norms used when questioning the elderly, minors, women and uneducated. The findings are discussed. This is part of a larger study where courtroom discourse is observed to determine if the perceptions of the lawyers are realized in authentic settings. Keywords: accommodation, courtroom, discourse
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Funders: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Communication, Courts, Law--Language |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Languages and Linguistics |
| Depositing User: | Mr Mohd Fazli Zainordin |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Jun 2012 07:47 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2013 07:48 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/3162 |
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