نوع مقاله : علمی-پژوهشی
نویسندگان
1 دانشگاه سمنان
2 عضو هیئت علمی دانشگاه سمنان
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عنوان مقاله English
نویسندگان English
Forensic linguistics is an applied branch of linguistic studies that draws on linguistic theories and methodologies to analyze language-related phenomena within legal contexts. The present study adopts a pragmatic approach to examine and detect deception in the speech of defendants involved in two types of crimes, namely fraud and theft. Employing a descriptive–analytical research design, the data were collected from eight authentic fraud and theft cases archived in the judiciary of Semnan Province. Within this framework, three core pragmatic principles—implicature, speech acts, and suspension—were employed as the analytical model. The findings indicate that fraud defendants use conventional implicatures (such as but, even, and still) approximately twice as frequently as theft defendants when producing deceptive statements. Moreover, while theft defendants generally observe felicity conditions, violations of these conditions are salient in the speech of fraud defendants. In contrast, pausing and hesitation in responding to questions are predominantly observed in the speech of theft defendants. Additionally, theft defendants make substantially greater use of infelicitous utterances and indirect speech acts than fraud defendants. Finally, another salient finding reveals that suspension—as a linguistic strategy for systematic evasion and concealment—is exclusively employed by fraud defendants.
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