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Prof. Liu Weiming’s Speech

7th IAFL Conference (2005). Prof. Liu Weiming’s Speech. At the International Association of Forensic Linguists 7th Biennial Conference on Forensic Linguistics/Language and Law 1st ~ 4th July 2005, Cardiff University, UK Day 2: Saturday July 2nd 2005 Room 2 5.00-5.30.

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Prof. Liu Weiming’s Speech

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  1. 7th IAFL Conference (2005) Prof. Liu Weiming’s Speech At the International Association of Forensic Linguists 7th Biennial Conference on Forensic Linguistics/Language and Law 1st ~ 4th July 2005, Cardiff University, UK Day 2: Saturday July 2nd 2005 Room 2 5.00-5.30

  2. 7th IAFL Conference (2005) Weiming Liu Professor, Vice-Dean, IAFL & CAFL Member Dept. of Foreign Languages & Law (Post Box 94) Northwest University of Political Science & Law Chang'an Road, Xian, Shaanxi, P. R. China Phone: +86-29-85385041 E-mail: lweiming@hotmail.com Home Page: http://www.flrchina.com/en/

  3. 7th IAFL Conference (2005) Title: Illocutionary and Perlocutionary Acts in Chinese Judge’sAttached Discourse

  4. 7th IAFL Conference (2005) • My talk can be divided into four parts: • Introduction • Illocutionary Act in Chinese Judge's Attached Discourse • Perlocutionary Act in Chinese Judge's Attached Discourse • Conclusion

  5. 7th IAFL Conference (2005) Part 1: Introduction • Chinese Judge’sAttached Discourseis one of the judicial reforms in China. • It is a written comment of the judge appended to the end of a court verdict. • It contains moral and ethic exhortations. • A heated academic debate has been aroused, but it is going on all from the legal point of view . • My paper will deal with this problem linguistically

  6. 7th IAFL Conference (2005) Part 2: Illocutionary Act in Chinese Judge’s Attached Discourse • The attached discourse has clear design or intention, strong influence and illocutionary force. • 3 Cases cited. • The discourses produce the moral call to the litigants and take its expected effect.

  7. 7th IAFL Conference (2005) Case 1: Money cannot substitute for emotional attachment. Get rid of old grievances to renew past cordial family relations. This is not only a question for the litigants and other sons and daughters to ponder deeply over, but also a mutual goal for you to achieve.

  8. 7th IAFL Conference (2005) Case 2: Any happy family will have conflicts between husband and wife. Now that the conflict has arisen, the two parties should keep a clear head with a view to solving the existing problem through active communication. Congenial love between husband and wife should rely on complete confidence in each other at first.

  9. 7th IAFL Conference (2005) Case 3: His father died when the plaintiff was very young and the defendant’s spouse died when she was middle aged. Such things are really tragedies in the world. The two parties of the case ought to sympathize with one another because of their misfortunes, but it is a great pity that they have instead dispute for the heritage of the dead and caused more serious damage to their own hearts. The law can handle this succession dispute between the two parties fairly, but money cannot substitute for emotional attachment at all. The departed is gone; his kinsfolk are still alive. How can the departed close his eyes in his grave when his kinsfolk are disputing about his heritage? I wish the two parties to get rid of old grievances, to respect and love each other, and to renew their emotional attachment. It will really be a great joy to see everything happy and prosperous in your family!

  10. 7th IAFL Conference (2005) Part 3: Perlocutionary Act in Chinese Judge’s Attached Discourse • It seems true that a perlocutionary act does not necessarily have any connection with an illocutionary act. • The context of the attached discourse is the highly stylized court trial and there are a lot of conventions in this context. • Examples show that the litigants responded to the attached discourse in a very positive way.

  11. 7th IAFL Conference (2005) Part 4: Conclusion • The judge’s attached discourse is feasible and reasonable. • 3 limitations and problems.

  12. 7th IAFL Conference (2005) At present, some courts are trying to apply this kind of discourse to criminal cases concerning minors as well as civil cases concerning the disputes of damage compensation and reputation. The effects are encouraging, because this shows that the judge’s attached discourse still has room for further development. Provided that its expressions are well-designed according to the nature of different cases, it will certainly produce strong illocutionary forces and achieve excellent consequential effects.

  13. 7th IAFL Conference (2005) Thank you!

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