A Reasearch On Context Of Investigative Interrogation

For a long time, to disclose the mysterious veil of context, Chinese and foreignscholars have made unremitting exploration and research. By summing up the historyof the scholars studying context and their achievements, we find that to discusscontext must built on language and verbal communication. Context is the environmentof language use, is foundation of language survival, and has an important impact onthe expression and understanding of language in verbal communication.Verbal communication is always accompanied by the context. As a special verbalcommunication, investigative interrogation also has complex context that can bebroadly classified into four categories: the background of cases, interrogation subjects,interrogation language context, temporal and spatial environment of interrogation.The conversation between interrogators and criminal suspects is often conflicting. Inorder to obtain true confession and excuse of criminal suspects, interrogators mustconquer criminal suspects with language. How to make interrogation languagestrategic, how to find vulnerability or weaknesses of criminal suspects, how to “suitthe remedy to the case”,“use application according to personal type” and many otherproblems are all involved in interrogation context. We can’t solve these problemswithout the context analysis. Only know the application of context in investigativeinterrogation can interrogators control the main direction, keep initiative and win theinterrogation in fight of language.Aside from introduction and conclusion, the thesis consists of four parts:The first part reviews the history of context research. This part is an inspectionon origin and research status of context in domestic and foreign areas. Before theconcept of “context” is put forward by Malinowski, Aristotle has confirmed context asa method to distinguish monosemic and polysemous words. After the concept of“context” is defined, Firth, Halliday, Wang Dechun, He Zhaoxiong and other Chineseand foreign scholars have classified context with different criteria, and discussed the important role of context in language.The second part discusses the context and verbal communication. This partmainly discusses the relationship between language and speech, analyzes the maincharacteristics of verbal communication, and elaborates the function of context inverbal communication on the basis of the context classification. The language contextwhether natural or non-natural plays a role that can not be ignored in verbalcommunication which takes language as a main communication means.The third part argues integrant of context in investigative interrogation. Theconflicting communicative purpose of interrogation subjects determines that theinterrogation language is confrontational, and interrogation subjects frequently violateGrice’s cooperative principle, which is the differentia of investigative interrogationfrom general verbal communication. Contextual factors of investigative interrogationusually include non-natural language context such as the background of cases,interrogation subjects, temporal and spatial environment of interrogation, and alsoincludes natural language context that is interrogation language context. Theimportance of these contextual factors in investigative interrogation is indubitable.Only by grasping these contextual factors can the interrogators ensure that theinterrogation language is strategic and artful.The fourth part shows the application of the context in investigative interrogation.It is the focus and difficulty of this article. To discuss the application in investigativeinterrogation must combine with the practice of investigative interrogation. Itanalyzes the specific contextual factors of interrogation examples, points out howinterrogators choose words and interrogation statements based on the context,constructs some scientific and effective reasoning to convince and educate criminalsuspects. At the same time, context is an important standard for interrogators to judgeif the confession and excuse of criminal suspects violates laws of thinking.Interrogators can set up presuppositions consistent with the context in theinterrogation.