The Experiential Meaning in Forensic Courtroom Discourse

T. Silvana Sinar, T. Thyrhaya Zein, Nurlela, Muhammad Yusuf

2018

Abstract

As a part of forensic linguistics, courtroom discourse is crucial to be explored. This paper is an attempt to investigate the experiential meaning focused on process types in courtroom discourse based on Halliday’s systemic functional grammar. Descriptive qualitative method focused on content analysis was employed as the research design. The data were the clauses taken from the conversation between jury, witness, and public prosecutor in a courtroom discourse in Medan-Indonesia. The findings reveal that material process is the dominant among other processes totalling to 33.07% followed successively by verbal (20.47%), mental and relational process (16.54%). It means that the interaction in courtroom discourse explores more about what happened in the case and what has performed by the actor or defendant. The speaker employs material process ‘to deliver’, action of corruption done implicitly, while verbal process is used to cover his worries of being known as corruptor.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sinar T., Zein T., Nurlela. and Yusuf M. (2018). The Experiential Meaning in Forensic Courtroom Discourse.In Proceedings of the International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental and Ramification Researches - Volume 1: ICOSTEERR, ISBN 978-989-758-449-7, pages 1501-1505. DOI: 10.5220/0010084915011505

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icosteerr18,
author={T. Silvana Sinar and T. Thyrhaya Zein and Nurlela and Muhammad Yusuf},
title={The Experiential Meaning in Forensic Courtroom Discourse},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental and Ramification Researches - Volume 1: ICOSTEERR,},
year={2018},
pages={1501-1505},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010084915011505},
isbn={978-989-758-449-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental and Ramification Researches - Volume 1: ICOSTEERR,
TI - The Experiential Meaning in Forensic Courtroom Discourse
SN - 978-989-758-449-7
AU - Sinar T.
AU - Zein T.
AU - Nurlela.
AU - Yusuf M.
PY - 2018
SP - 1501
EP - 1505
DO - 10.5220/0010084915011505