Linguistic Accommodation: Perception of Malaysian Lawyers
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...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
| Language: | en |
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2010
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/3162/1/Linguistic_Accommodation.pdf http://eprints.um.edu.my/3162/ |
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| Summary: | 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 |
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