Recurrent gestures and embodied stance-taking in courtroom opening statements

IF 0.8 3区 文学 Q3 COMMUNICATION Text & Talk Pub Date : 2024-04-08 DOI:10.1515/text-2023-0042
Min Yang, Min Wang
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Despite the inherently multimodal nature of the courtroom, studies of multimodality in forensic linguistics have been scarce. This study uses the stance triangle and ideological square concepts and the assumption that recurrent gestures serve as stance-taking resources to analyze conflicting embodied stances taken by the prosecutor and defense attorney in their opening remarks during the State of Minnesota v. Derek Michael Chauvin 2021 trial. Statistical results reveal that the prosecutor predominantly uses modal gestures to display a strongly aggravated oppositional stance and attempts to be more persuasive, while the defense attorney favors performative gestures. The analysis of the interplay between the verbal and gestural resources suggests that recurrent gestures such as open hand prone or supine, open hand held with vertical palms, index finger extended, and precision grip have a threefold indexical realization: prototypical, argumentative, and stance-taking. The findings contribute to a more complete understanding of persuasion in the courtroom.
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法庭开庭陈述中反复出现的手势和体现的姿态
尽管法庭本身具有多模态性质,但法医语言学中的多模态研究却很少。本研究使用立场三角和意识形态广场概念,以及反复出现的手势作为立场采取资源的假设,来分析在明尼苏达州诉德里克-迈克尔-肖文(Derek Michael Chauvin)2021 年案的审判过程中,检察官和辩护律师在开场白中相互冲突的体现立场。统计结果显示,检察官主要使用模态手势表现出强烈的加重反对立场,并试图增强说服力,而辩护律师则偏爱表演性手势。对语言和手势资源之间相互作用的分析表明,反复出现的手势,如张开手俯卧或仰卧、张开手垂直握掌、食指伸展和精确握持等,具有三重索引实现:原型、争论和立场。这些发现有助于更全面地理解法庭上的说服。
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期刊介绍: Text & Talk (founded as TEXT in 1981) is an internationally recognized forum for interdisciplinary research in language, discourse, and communication studies, focusing, among other things, on the situational and historical nature of text/talk production; the cognitive and sociocultural processes of language practice/action; and participant-based structures of meaning negotiation and multimodal alignment. Text & Talk encourages critical debates on these and other relevant issues, spanning not only the theoretical and methodological dimensions of discourse but also their practical and socially relevant outcomes.
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