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Streamed Trials and Televised Confessions: A Linguistic Analysis of the Intersection of Law and Media in the People’s Republic of China
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This study analyzes the intersection of media and the law in the People’s Republic of China from qualitative and quantitative empirical linguistics perspectives. Institutional interaction in court trials broadcast online, televised confessions that are directed, scripted, and broadcast on state television, and news and academic articles about these two phenomena are all systematically examined to determine how media becomes part of the law and law becomes part of media. Conversation analysis of a corpus of 20 criminal trials streamed on the China Court Trial Online website (CCTO) reveals that defendants construct resistance to ascriptions of guilt in exclusively covert ways, while judges respond to these efforts in turns that reassert guilt and seek explicit affiliation from defendants. Multimodal critical discourse analysis of three televised confession news segments shows the ways in which state ideology about nationality and the law is conveyed to mass media audiences through lexico-grammatical structure, gaze, and other semiotic resources. I also show, through corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis of four corpora in two different genres – two news corpora and two academic corpora including articles about trial streaming and televised confessions – that institutional and individual discourses surrounding these phenomena diverge sharply in terms of factual interpretation and normative evaluation. The consideration of these findings together reveals the way that the media is being mobilized as a part of the legal process, in order to further discipline the immediate participants and communicate the institutional stance toward law-breakers and the ideologically deviant to a mass media audience. This study also shows how corpus linguistics may be incorporated into qualitative research, e.g. conversation analysis and critical discourse analysis, to reveal subtle patterns, guide the refining of research questions, and enhance the systematic nature of the analytic approach.
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Asian studies; confession; conversation analysis; critical discourse analysis; Law; Linguistics; mass media; resistance
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URL: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1374r395
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Multimodal Conversation Modeling via Neural Perception, Structure Learning, and Communication
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Conversational Composition - Techniques of composition derived from and driven by conversation
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Séquences de guidage dans des sessions de jeux vidéo : comment co-construire la programmation d’une action dans l’interaction ?
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In: Langages, N 221, 1, 2021-03-23, pp.107-121 (2021)
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Indexicality and Discourse Functions of Manner Demonstratives Zheyang and Nayang in Spoken Mandarin
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Lee, Yu-Hui. - : eScholarship, University of California, 2020
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Indexicality and Discourse Functions of Manner Demonstratives Zheyang and Nayang in Spoken Mandarin
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Lee, Yu-Hui. - : eScholarship, University of California, 2020
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Data for: Co-speech movement in conversational turn-taking ...
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Data for: Co-speech movement in conversational turn-taking ...
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It's all about the interaction: listener responses as a discourse-organisational variable ...
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Intelligente Persönliche Assistenten im häuslichen Umfeld. Erkenntnisse aus einer linguistischen Pilotstudie zur Erhebung audiovisueller Interaktionsdaten ...
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Next speaker selection in Indonesian: A study of typical and atypical interactions
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Turn permeability and cognitive-communication disorders
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Skinner, Natalie. - : Sydney, Australia : Macquarie University, 2020. : ©2020, 2020
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El paper de la conversa en l’educació demòcrata ; The role of conversation in a democratic education
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In: Revista Catalana de Pedagogia; Vol. 17 (2020); 57-73 (2020)
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A rationale for unanimity in committees
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In: SP II 2017-308 ; Discussion Papers / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Forschungsschwerpunkt Markt und Entscheidung, Abteilung Ökonomik des Wandels ; 41 (2020)
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Global coherence in aphasia during conversation (Leaman & Edmonds, 2020)
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