汉语刑事辩护词中态度资源的分布——作为社会过程的法律语篇研究之四

Distributional Features of Attitudinal Resources in Statements of Defense in Chinese Criminal Trials: Legal discourse as social process(4)

汉语刑事辩护词作为法律语篇,是一种竞争类社会过程,承载着较重的人际语义负荷。本文从评价系统视角研究汉语刑事辩护词的态度资源及其分布特征。通过分析,我们发现汉语刑事辩护词中使用最多的态度资源是裁决,其次是鉴赏和情感。态度资源的分布特征是,论点部分中的必选资源是裁决,可选资源是鉴赏和/或情感;论证部分中的必选资源是以裁决为主并辅以鉴赏,可选资源是情感;结论部分中的态度资源分布与论点部分的相同。

The statement of defense in Chinese criminal trial is a kind of competitive social process with a heavy load of interpersonal meaning. Within the framework of the APPRAISAL Systems, this paper ex- plores the attitudinal resources and their distributional features in statements of defense in Chinese criminal trials. Through the analyses, it is found that the most-widely used attitudinal resource is Judgment, with Appreciation and Affect next to it. The distributional feature of these attitudinal resources in the stages of statements of defense is as follows： in Thesis, Judgment is compulsory, Appreciation and/or Affect are optional; in Argument, Judgment affiliated by Appreciation is compulsory, and Affect is optional; in Conclusion, the distribution of attitudinal resources is the same to that in Thesis.