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Appliable Linguistics Seminar 38
(Seminar on Language Science and System Science 104)

Time: 16:00, 26 April 2017
Venue: #304, School of Foreign Languages
Speaker: Dr. Zhang Ranran

Title: The Regulating Functions of Judge’s Discourse in Criminal Cases of China
Abstract: As part of courtroom discourse, judge’s discourse in China is important in court proceedings and contributes a lot to the fair and equitable judicial administration. Taking a systemic functional approach, this current report pays attention to judge’s discursive regulation in China’s criminal trials. With the help of UAM corpus tool, it intends to investigate what are regulated in different stages of courtroom discourse, and the ways in which the regulations are linguistically realized.
Key words: judge’s discourse; regulation; systemic functional linguistics