Moral Legitimation in Courtroom Discourse: A Proposal
- Title
- Moral Legitimation in Courtroom Discourse: A Proposal
- Author
- 챔사이통크리스다
- Keywords
- courtroom discourse; death sentence; legitimation; moral legitimation; strategies
- Issue Date
- 2020-08
- Publisher
- 한국영어학학회
- Citation
- 영어학연구, v. 26, no. 2, page. 25-48
- Abstract
- Embracing the view that the legitimacy of a social practice is discursively established and negotiated, this study proposes a linguistically grounded model for moral legitimation and examines how the State (i.e., the prosecuting lawyer) justifies a death sentence. Based on the closing summation of six capital trials, the study identifies key moral legitimation strategies and reveals the State’s ideology about crime and punishment. It is argued that such discursive strategies as evaluation, labelling, analogy, agency assignment, and emphasis on the victim’s lost future not only alienate the person on trial from the jury and the victims but also over-emphasize the “us-them” boundaries. In effect, the State denies specific personal circumstances, as required by the law.
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- https://www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/ci/sereArticleSearch/ciSereArtiView.kci?sereArticleSearchBean.artiId=ART002616642https://repository.hanyang.ac.kr/handle/20.500.11754/169772
- ISSN
- 1598-9453; 2636-1183
- DOI
- 10.17960/ell.2020.26.2.002
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- COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES[S](인문과학대학) > ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE(영어영문학과) > Articles
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