A Discourse Analysis Of Press Conference Of The Supreme People's Court

Discourse is a mirror which can reflect the change of society.Similarly,as a kind of discourse,the Supreme People's Court press conference can reflect the change of society.The press conference of the Supreme People's Court can profoundly reflect the legal construction and social development,which determined by the special position of the Supreme People's Court.The Supreme People's Court is the highest judicial organ in China and it have the function to uniform law and form the public policy.To achieve these functions,the supreme people's court released a lot of judicial interpretations,judicial documents and typical cases for regulating social and economic life through the press conference.The supreme people's court tries all kinds of cases,manage the judicial administration and supervise the other courts.At the same time,it pay more attention to the problems of legal sense,legal value,promoting the judicial fairness and governing the country by law.The Supreme People's Court released judicial documents,judicial interpretations,typical cases and the reform of the judicial work through the discourse practice of press conference.It tells the good stories about the rule of law,transmits good voice the rule of law.And the same time,it also spread the spirit of ideas of democracy of law.Consequently,the content of the Supreme People's Court's press conference reflects the current rule of law in our country,the process of social civilization.To analyze the content of the Supreme People's Court's press conference,we can speculate the development situation of the society in different aspects of our country.In this paper,the Supreme People's Court's press conference was regarded as a kind of legal discourse.Fairclough's three-dimensional analysis model was used and it's the frame of analysis.At the textual level,two aspects(vocabulary and text)was considered to describe the text characteristic of the press.At the practical level,agenda-setting and intertextuality were used to illustrate the press conference discourse's generation process.At the social practice,the factors of society,politic,economy and culture were considered to explain the characteristics and the changes which reflected in the text and discourse practice.The Supreme People's Court's press conference is not only a kind of institutional discourse,but also a type of monologue,which reflects the judicial authority of the supreme judicial organ of our country.At the same time,the Supreme People's Court release the news actively following the policy and social development and it pay more attention to fairness and justice.The Supreme People's Court's press conference discourse's characteristics is closely related to the social transformation,the transformation of the role of the Supreme People's Court and the change of media environment.