courtroom interactions

In judicial settings, courtroom interaction varies from time to time, depending on the character and personality, ability and proficiency, and style and manner of individual participants. This paper investigates and examines the relevance of the courtroom interactions as reflected in the organization of points and in the sequence of turn taking system, specifically the analysis of interactional activities, techniques used, and functions of transition and conditional at talk in interactions. Based on the limited materials or source, only one Official Transcript with audio-recordings from RTC Branch 12, Lipa City, Batangas was utilized as the corpus of my study. The corpus is about the civil case between the telecommunication service provider, generic name (plaintiff) and the City Government of Lipa, Batangas.

La mayoría de las preguntas formuladas en sede judicial no cumple su papel pragmático-discursivo prototípico, a saber, solicitar una información desconocida por el hablante. De hecho, las figuras institucionales que conducen el examen oral de los declarantes conocen los hechos de autos y recurren a múltiples tipos de preguntas para obtener las respuestas deseadas. Adoptando la perspectiva del análisis conversacional, el presente estudio pretende describir la relación entre el formato gramatical de la pregunta y su poder coercitivo en el juicio oral, a partir de un estudio de caso, a saber, un juicio del Tribunal del Jurado celebrado en 2014 en la Audiencia Provincial de Alicante, en su sede de Elche. Asimismo, se analiza el papel interaccional de los intervinientes en la audiencia pública y los usos estratégicos del tercer turno en el interrogatorio y en el contrainterrogatorio. Palabras clave: lingüística forense, interacción oral en contextos judiciales, examen oral de testigos, forma y función de las preguntas, creación discursiva de la narración judicial

In judicial settings, courtroom interaction varies from time to time, depending on the character and personality, ability and proficiency, and style and manner of individual participants. This paper investigates and examines the relevance of the courtroom interactions as reflected in the organization of points and in the sequence of turn taking system, specifically the analysis of interactional activities, techniques used, and functions of transition and conditional at talk in interactions. Based on the limited materials or source, only one Official Transcript with audio-recordings from RTC Branch 12, Lipa City, Batangas was utilized as the corpus of my study. The corpus is about the civil case between the telecommunication service provider, generic name (plaintiff) and the City Government of Lipa, Batangas.