Applied Linguistics (Yuyan Wenzi Yingyong)

Abstract

This article first dichotomizes the trial languages in court into the object language and the metalanguage. Accordingly, the trial language of the judge falls in the domain of the metalanguage. Further functional categorization of the trial language of the judge facilitates the analysis of whether and how the judge’s maneuver of the trial process through the metalanguage affects the representation of the case, i.e., the trial content. Evidence from the data analysis shows that there is certainly a kind of intervention, which might undermine people’s perception of justice in court.

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