Language Strategies In Interrogation Of Corruption And Bribery Cases

Interrogate the criminal suspect is significant in criminal detection, especially in the cases of bribery and corruption, the ones which getting verbal evidence is very difficult. So the person who is doing the work of interrogate needs more valid measures to do it well. See from the existed researches, little of them is based on language skills, most are concentrated in the area of law and psychology. But no matter which area the researches based on, they will transform the information via the tool of language. It reveals that do some researches in the area of language is very important, that’s why this paper is carried out, and the purpose of this paper is to do some judicial assistances.This paper mainly from two aspects, first is the repetition of language, the procurators often repeats in the process of interrogation. Through analysis of the interrogation, five kinds of strategies are used, they are: Use repeated language when procurators have clues but did not have definitive evidence to make the criminal suspect believe that this crime has been fully grasped and then the suspect take the initiative to truthfully confession; Use repeated language to make the suspect in compulsion and then take the initiative to truthfully confession; Be proud of the criminal suspect’s identity and personality to make them reach the state of superego and then break the silence with truthfully confession; Use repeated language to find out the false confession; By repeating lies for words or lies for the key information to trace the real facts. But repeated language shouldn’t be excessive used, otherwise it will feedback. So the procurators who use repeated languages in the process of interrogation should never overused this skill nor made the skill be some kind of brainwashing.The second aspect is the opennessof questions. See from the point of view of Professor Liao, questions are divided into two different kinds, the one is the “open question” and the other one is the “closed question”. The “open question” include the “narrow open question” and the “wide open question”, and the “closed question” are consisted of two different kinds of questions, the one is traditional “closed questions”, including the “right or not question” “choose or not question” and the “additional question”, and the other one is the special “closed question”, including the “liked rhetorical question” and the “rhetorical question”. In the process of interrogation, the questions mainly have three different kinds of functions, they are: Use the “open question” to get the facts when the suspect is willing to make confessions; Use “closed question” when the suspect is not willing to make confessions; When the procurator is not clear of the suspect’s attitude, it’s better to use “open question” at first and then use “closed question” when faced with not cooperated situations. But no matter the “open question” nor the “closed question” should be used reasonable, otherwise it will interfere the progress of the interrogation: Firstly, excessive use of “closed question” may let the criminal suspect frustrated and strongly reject the interrogation; Secondly, when the suspect is not willing to confession, it’s better not use “open question”; Finally, “open question” and “closed question” do not have very clear boundaries, they should be used flexibly.