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Title Tellabilty in forensic Narratives: A Cognitive Semantic Analysis

Author(s) Tariq Aziz (CR)

Abstract Title: Tellability in Forensic Narratives: A Cognitive-Semantic Analysis Narratives in First Information Reports (FIRs) can serve as important investigative pieces of evidence in court. Petitioners sometimes aggrieve that they have suffered because of the narratives presented before courts in police FIRs and they claim that their actual voice is not narrated in the FIRs by police. Keeping in mind this situation, an investigation was needed to highlight the semantic gap between police marasalas and FIRs based on these marasalas. This study used Langacker‟s subjective dimension of language to find figure-ground segregation through three tools (voice, prepositional and dative alterations) in forensic narratives of police marasalas and FIRs. For this purpose ten police marasalas and their FIRs were collected from five police stations in Peshawar. Data were collected through convenience sampling. The objectives were to investigate if there existed in these forensic narratives any elements of figure-ground or not. If there existed, in what way they impacted the narratives. Two expert lawyers were consulted during this study on several stages. Qualitative textual content analysis and interpretation of marasalas and FIRs were carried out in the process of data analysis. It was found that the tellability of narratives in marasalas were shifted and altered in their FIRs through figure-ground segregation. The researcher suggested that the police officers should write these reports in an accurate, exact, clear and factual manner. The police officers should make their level best to avoid their personal inputs in these forensic narratives to avoid harming or benefitting the plaintiff or petitioners. The common people should also be educated in law and legal language to avoid any kind injustice to them.

Type Thesis/Dissertation PhD

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Publication Date 2021-05-31

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