LING316 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Great Range, Derek Bentley Case, Forensic Linguistics
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Dual function of compliments o evaluative or supportive. Still, there is a preferred response o thank you, but there is also this necessity to avoid self-praise. Closings have substructures as well o they always involve a pre-closing. Give the other one last chance to say something related to the conversation. Speech event o conversations are speech events in the sense that they have specific participants in a specific location with a specific vocabulary etc. Location is important (you"re in the doctor"s home turf) There is a goal: arrive at a treatment decision. Different strategies are used in different clinics o doctors provide info in different ways. Not everyone was given a conversational slot to state their preference. The discourse structure varied from interview to interview. Fischer suggests that residents" conflicting goals may be relevant and may have guided the way they structured the interview. Forensic linguistics is the application of linguistic analysis to legal issues.