§3. Linguistic investigation

For my linguistic investigation I will use one of the interviews given in one of the cases. I will analyse the document⁸, what was rewritten by the attorney or/and prosecutor. Firstly, I should explain the process of making transcript the interview. The main thing is about to make speech readable. It is unnecessary for judge or jury to listen to the whole tape record, so in crimes transcriptions are made.

The main requirement for decoder is preservation of as much of the details and the psychological coloring of witness’s testimony as possible. In the other case, the testimony may be misinterpreted by the jury, which may lead to the delusion in the course of the trial.

Here you will see complication of the original tape transcript⁹. In order to make it totally clear I will make a table.

Tape	Document
Yes I hid for a while and then I heard the bang I have told you about.	I hid for a while and after a while I heard a bang come from downstairs.
The three of them were still in the room	I went downstairs and the three of them were still in the room.
They all looked shocked and as I remember, but I can't be sure, were shouting	They all looked shocked and were shouting at each other.
Jimmy said that it was an accident, or like this	I heard Jimmy say, ‘It went off by accident’
Yes sir, in the head	There was a lot of mess, but I’m sure that he was shut in the head
I felt sick	I wasn’t feeling myself good.

Some of the phrases were changed in the way that document needed. But that changes are rewriting the point from which the boy seems to be totally sure about all the action. In some of the answers we can see the confirming of the officer’s questions and some of them literally show that boy was not completely confident. The stress and remedy reaction of the witness was not showed and, as a conclusion, will not be counted during the process. In order to fix the thing sometimes so things like: “Given transcript is not showing the literal dialogue”. But in the murder crime prosecution witnesses can’t get such a thing in the document to prevent prosecutor of judge from making him/her heartless.

Conclusion

In the investigation we looked through the tasks and terms that are given as a studying material in universities. We studied the testimony of witnesses and certain peculiarities of transcription of interrogation records. The final speech of the lawyer was also drawn up in full compliance with the criminal law of Great Britain.

Conclusion

In modern society, the law plays almost the most important role. Being able to understand the intricacies of the litigation process is becoming more important every year. A large number of people strive to become educated in the field of jurisprudence and legislation. A big amount of media pictures only confirm my thoughts.

The most obvious way in which law contributes to the maintenance of social order is the way in which it deals with disorder or conflict. This book, therefore, is particularly concerned with the institutions and procedures, both civil and criminal, through which law operates to ensure a particular form of social order by dealing with various conflicts when they arise.

Results of my investigation are the following. I have:

• studied literature references concerning law terminology and lexis;

• illustrated some situations and using law terminology and lexis;

• defined specific law slang as a unique phenomenon of the English language;

• illustrated some of the features of words in a law debate, litigation and pleadings.