A Study On The Discourse Stance-taking Of Judge In Courtroom Conversation

Based on real courtroom conversation corpus, this paper uses the theories and methods of discourse stance and discourse analysis to study the judge's discourse stance,and analyze the kinds, expressions and standardization of judge's discourse stance.This paper is divided into five parts:The first part is the introduction, which includes the research content, research significance, research status, research methods and corpus description.The second part mainly studies the kinds of judge's discourse stance. First of all, the author classifies the discourse stance of judges into evaluative stance, affective stance,epistemic stance and (dis)alignment stance, then discusses each kind separately. Judge's evaluation is a kind of activity which uses the value standard to measure the behavior of the participants, including positive and negative evaluation. Judge's affect is a kind of tendentious reaction to man and things in the case, including positive and negative affect.Judge's episteme is the judge's perception of the information received, including empirical type and knowledge type. Judge's (dis)alignment is the agreement or disagreement with the former speaker's view point in the conversation, including alignment and disalignment.The third part mainly studies the expression of judge's discourse stance. According to the findings, the judge's evaluative stance mainly includes three kinds of expressions:vocabulary, questioning and reporting; affective stance mainly uses the ways of description and rhetorical questions; epistemic stance is mainly expressed by inference and citation; To express (dis)alignment stance, the judge mainly uses three ways:interruption, repetition and topic.The fourth part mainly discusses the standardization of judge's discourse stance. On the level of system, the author establishes the "judge neutrality" as the basic principle of law,implements challenge system and perfects judge's professional ethics system,strengthens the provisions; perfects judge's compensation system and judicial independence system,reduces the impact of external environment; establishes trial broadcast system, forms normal supervision. On the discourse level, it is important to be reasonable and legitimate in the expression of evaluative stance, affective stance,epistemic stance and (dis)alignment stance.The fifth part is the conclusion,which summarizes the whole text, including the research results, innovations and deficiencies.