Language and Power of the Courtroom

Describe the physical setting in detail of a courtroom. Briefly describe the outside of the building, and  explain how you make your way to the courtroom itself, entering it.

– Where does the public sit and how does that seating compare to where the judge and other employees of the court
sit? What are their roles?

– Describe the dress of the judge, employees, lawyers, 2-3 defendants, and 2-3 members of the audience. What
verbal and nonverbal activity is present for you to determine relationships between audience members or between
the audience and the defendants?
– Describe the syntax and lexicon you hear in these ritual proceedings. For example, is it formal English,
conversational English, legal English? Do you hear dialect markers such as particular phonemes, lexemes, or syntax
(get the definitions of these terms from Wikipedia.com)?

– Describe the gestures, and, if possible the way participants in the legal processes direct their gaze as part of
these ritual proceedings. What is the demeanor of the judge?

– find evidence of ritual processes (formalized, symbolic, representing authority), and these may vary from case
to case. Choose one case to describe then discuss the variations you noted in other cases.

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