Возможности описания стратегий власти в определенном виде юридического дискурса (на материалах заседаний мирового суда)
Possibilities for describing power strategies in a certain form of legal discourse (on the materials of the sessions of the world court)

Summary/Abstract: The present article aims at posing a conceptual and theoretical framework for the investigation of dominance relations in language. The general question of language data examination is how the asymmetry in dominance relations arises between professional and non-professional speakers in the course of trial processes. The article consists of two parts. In the first part, the author introduces theoretical frameworks for carrying out the investigation of language data – conversation analysis, and gives a short summary of the notion of power in recent linguistic research. In the second part, the author gives an illustration of previous points and presents a set of power and powerless strategies used by a professional and lay members of legal discourse. The conclusion is that asymmetry in the discourse of members of legal institutions can be successfully described applying the theoretical frameworks suggested above.

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