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Title LINGUISTIC REPRESENTATION OF EVENTS IN FIRST INFORMATION REPORTS AND COURT REPORTS: A GENRE ANALYSIS OF MURDER CASE REPORTS

Author(s) NAZISH AYAZ

Abstract his study is an attempt to analyze the linguistic and generic patterns of language use in the legal genre of FIRs and Court reports. Numerous valuable studies have been carried out to identify underlying structure of language in the genre of legal texts in the western countries; it is still minimal in Pakistan. The study thus explores the lexical and generic choices of legal genre that characterize both registers in the Pakistani context. The data for this research comprises a sample of 32 FIRs and court reports of murder cases taken from January 2009 to 2011. An exploratory qualitative analysis technique has been employed for the data analysis. After analyzing the data in the light of Vijay Bhatia’s seven step model of genre analysis, it has been found that the FIRs and court reports contain lexical, syntactical and textual devices. The findings of the research reveal that first information reports and court reports have some set patterns of textual and grammatical structuring characterized by archaic words, doublets, technical terms, nominalized expressions, long and complicated sentences and ordinary words with special meanings. Thus, the findings may help the future researchers in exploring the new trends in the field of forensic linguistics and legal discourse and writing.

Type Thesis/Dissertation MS

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Language English

Publication Date 2021-11-12

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