1. Introduction
This aim of this study is to conduct an analysis of the linguistic features that are characteristic of police statement with women reporting rape cases. This study particularly focuses on the ways in which the victims are linguistically characterized by police officers who are in charge of conducting the victim’s initial complaints. For the analysis, the Critical Discourse Analysis approach was used in the determination of the characteristics of language used by the law enforcement officer, which concerns with how social, cultural, and political norms and ideologies influences the construction and flow of discourse in terms of power relation. The data used in this study are written statements of two complaints cases in which …show more content…
One of the most distinctive characteristics of institutional discourse is the inherent power imbalance found among participants within the discourse, which stems from the mechanism of the interview format and the conversation structure. The asymmetry in the distribution of power between the speakers is attributed to the pre-defined participant role and discursive features such as who takes the position as a questioner and who has control over the setting of the conversation and the vital decisions to be made regarding the validity of the information exchanged. (Clayman, 1992, 1993; Greatbatch, 1986, 1988, …show more content…
The issue of power and control is a significant element in the police discourse since it is closely related to the goal of the police discourse, which is extracting valid information on the topic of the conversation. Under this nature of police discourse which bears inherent power imbalance between the discourse participants (interviewer and the interviewee), this study investigates the linguistic characteristics that are found in the written statements of two rape incidents with two female victims reporting rape In particular, as a critical analysis, this study focuses on how the victims are characterized by the police officers in terms of lexico-grammatical features and Speech Acts
This aim of this study is to conduct an analysis of the linguistic features that are characteristic of police statement with women reporting rape cases. This study particularly focuses on the ways in which the victims are linguistically characterized by police officers who are in charge of conducting the victim’s initial complaints. For the analysis, the Critical Discourse Analysis approach was used in the determination of the characteristics of language used by the law enforcement officer, which concerns with how social, cultural, and political norms and ideologies influences the construction and flow of discourse in terms of power relation. The data used in this study are written statements of two complaints cases in which …show more content…
One of the most distinctive characteristics of institutional discourse is the inherent power imbalance found among participants within the discourse, which stems from the mechanism of the interview format and the conversation structure. The asymmetry in the distribution of power between the speakers is attributed to the pre-defined participant role and discursive features such as who takes the position as a questioner and who has control over the setting of the conversation and the vital decisions to be made regarding the validity of the information exchanged. (Clayman, 1992, 1993; Greatbatch, 1986, 1988, …show more content…
The issue of power and control is a significant element in the police discourse since it is closely related to the goal of the police discourse, which is extracting valid information on the topic of the conversation. Under this nature of police discourse which bears inherent power imbalance between the discourse participants (interviewer and the interviewee), this study investigates the linguistic characteristics that are found in the written statements of two rape incidents with two female victims reporting rape In particular, as a critical analysis, this study focuses on how the victims are characterized by the police officers in terms of lexico-grammatical features and Speech Acts