Prosecutor’s Resolution On The Cases Of Violence Against Women And Children: A Forensic Linguistic Analysis
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 2
Abstract
Resolutions are issued by the prosecutors on the cases to be dismissed and or filed in the court based on their preliminary investigation. This text is one of the documents which utilizes legalese language. This qualitative content analysis of resolutions on the cases of Violence Against Women and Children aimed to describe the linguistic features and structure of the legal texts. In terms of lexical features, archaic, formal, technical, common words with uncommon meanings are uncovered. Syntactically, the features are nominalization, impersonality, negatives, prepositional phrases, long and complex sentences, passives, and clauses. Pragmatic features include pragmatic discourse markers, prediction categories, and legal syllogism. In the discourse level, informative, interpretative, argumentative-persuasive types discursive structures are found; and the narrative. In the resolutions, the thematic structure follows resolution data, introduction, arguments of the parties, analysis of the prosecutor, decision/conclusion, and the miscellaneous parts. These linguistic features play important functions in the resolutions and contribute to the distinctiveness of this legal text. Moreover, each part of the thematic structure of the resolution contains parts which may be obligatory or not depending on the nature of the case, the available evidence and arguments and the decisions made.
Authors and Affiliations
Rhodella M. Raniola- Bidal, Riceli C. Mendoza
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