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Subject:       [CIOS/ethno] IPrA panel "Quoting from the case file: Intertextual practices in   	courtroom discourse"
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[call for abstracts]

Panel at the 12th International Pragmatics
Conference, Manchester, 3-8 July, 2011


QUOTING FROM THE CASE FILE: INTERTEXTUAL PRACTICES IN
COURTROOM DISCOURSE

organizers: Sigurd D'hondt (Ghent University) & Fleur van den Houwen =20
(VU University, Amsterdam)


Criminal trial hearings are communicative events which are densely =20
intertextually structured. Documents in the case file such as police =20
records of the arrest, witness statements and expert records are =20
extensively referred to, quoted, requoted, and recontextualized in the =20
course of the trial - which is inevitable because demonstrating the =20
defendant's criminal liability and the establishment of a binding =20
legal reality crucially hinge on the transformation of these =20
discourses into lawful evidence. For this panel, we invite =20
contributions from various angles that explore how quoting in the =20
courtroom is actually done, including - but not limited to - =20
conversation analysis, linguistic anthropology, and interactional =20
sociolinguistics. Rather than tracing the intertextual trajectory of =20
these various discourses throughout the legal institutions (which we =20
rather consider as a general background to our enterprise), we seek =20
papers that specifically focus on the question how quoting and related =20
intertextual practices are sensitive to the particulars of the =20
courtroom environment. Questions that come to mind are for example:

* What form do intertextual practices take (direct/indirect quote, =20
summarizing etc.)?
* Who is quoted (e.g. suspect or witness?) how, and in what =20
interactional environment?
* To what extent is quoting intertwined with the projection of =20
institutional identities? (For example, do prosecutors and defense =20
attorneys quote differently?)
* How is quoting responded to by the other parties?
* How does the legal system (accusatorial vs. inquisitorial) affect =20
intertextual practices?
* ...


As indicated, the proposed panel is open to researchers from different =20
approaches. We envisage two 90-minute sessions, each including three =20
to four presentations.

Some important deadlines:

* Sept. 15, 2010     send abstracts (500 words) to Sigurd.Dhondt@Ugent.be
* Oct. 29, 2010      authors must have submitted their abstracts to =20
IPrA (n.b.: IPrA membership required!)
* July 3-8, 2011     IPrA Conference, Manchester

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