Critical Discourse Analysis of Judicial Conversations in Vietnam: A Case Study

Phan Tuan Ly

World Journal of English Language, 2025, vol. 15, issue 1, 362

Abstract: This article analyzed the interrogation conversation between the jury members and the defendant in a criminal trial in Vietnam. The examined corpus consisted of four conversations with a capacity of about 43 minutes during the interrogation at a criminal trial in Vietnam. Content description and discourse analysis are used as methods from a qualitative approach to explore how power was exercised, maintained, and legitimized in Vietnamese legal conversational discourses. The research results showed that there were seven ways of expression conducted by the jury to produce power in conversation. Specifically, they were the obligation to use polite words/phrases in the defendant's responses, the obligation of the defendants to answer the juris in a question-answer pair, the phenomenon of interruption, the right to change the subject of the conversation, the Trial Panel's request to take action of the defendants, the questions not for informational purposes, the phenomenon of omitting the subject during questioning.

Date: 2025
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.sciedupress.com/journal/index.php/wjel/article/download/25804/16440 (application/pdf)
https://www.sciedupress.com/journal/index.php/wjel/article/view/25804 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:jfr:wjel11:v:15:y:2025:i:1:p:362

Access Statistics for this article

World Journal of English Language is currently edited by Joe Nelson

More articles in World Journal of English Language from Sciedu Press
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sciedu Press ().