Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Judges’Footing Shifts in Criminal Courtroom  

刑事庭审中法官话语立足点转换的多模态研究

作　　者：Jinshi Chen 陈金诗(广东外语外贸大学英语教育学院/阐释学研究院)

机构地区：[1]Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

出　　处：《Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics》2020年第1期5-25,126,共22页中国应用语言学（英文）

基　　金：This paper is funded by the National Social Science Foundation of China[Project No.:18BYY073].

摘　　要：The paper,based on the concept of FOOTING,makes a multimodal discourse analysis of the relationship between the judge’s discourse and his footing shifts in a criminal courtroom.The results show that in the interaction,multimodal resources in judges’discourse include conversational features(prolonging keywords,interrupting,repeating,taking turns,etc.),acoustic ones(ascending F0 for pitches and d B for intensity,transition tracks between consonants and formants of vowels,duration of some keywords in important sentences,etc.),and visual ones(facing other parties,facing the materials,etc.).The multimodal resources activate different judges’footings,including ANIMATOR,ANIMATOR+AUTHOR and ANIMATOR+AUTHOR+PRINCIPAL,and identify the judge’s footing shifts in the courtroom.The results also demonstrate that the judge’s footing shifts perform the functions of trial organizing,information confirming,fact investigating,spokesperson of the collegial panel,law educating and so on in criminal trials.本文基于话语立足点的概念,以多模态话语分析为框架,以一次刑事上诉审的法官话语为例,探讨刑事庭审中法官话语与其立足点转换间的关系。研究发现,庭审互动中法官话语的多模态资源包括会话特征(拖音、打断、重复、话轮转换等)、声学特征(音高的基频值提高、音强的分贝值增加、辅音与元音间过渡音征、重点语句中关键词音长等)、视觉特征(面向法庭当事人、面朝文字资料、面向法庭等),法官调用的多模态资源激活其不同的立足点,包括"话语激活者"、"话语激活者+话语作者"、"话语激活者+话语作者+话语委托者"等,模态资源的综合作用引发话语立足点的改变。研究结果同时体现了法官立足点转换承载的庭审组织、信息确认、事实调查、合议庭代言和法庭普法等功能。

关 键 词：footing shifts multimodal resources criminal courtroom judges’discourse 

分 类 号：D926.2[政治法律—法学] D925.2