Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Linguistic and Ethnographic Analyis of Apology Narratives Performed in the Context of Federal Sentencing Hearings

博士论文研究：联邦量刑听证会背景下道歉叙述的语言学和民族志分析

• 批准号: 0446574
• 负责人: Michael Silverstein
• 金额: $ 1.19万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-03-01 至 2007-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0446574&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Linguistic; Ethnographic

This project analyzes the ways in which federal criminal defendants make use of the right of allocution during sentencing hearings. When given the opportunity to address the court, defendants often make some sort of apology to their families, the court, or the government. Naturally occurring apologies provide a rich forum for the study of affective meaning the communication of feelings, attitudes, and relational dispositions of all types because the sincerity of an apology is crucial to its successful performance in a way that does not seem to hold for other speech acts. The investigator will identify the implicatures generated by the choice of one apology form compared to others, and will link these implicatures to the ideology of the hearing developed, in order to assess the apology's relative goodness. The investigation will contribute to the general understanding of the speech act of apologies, and to the specific ways in which the constraints of this particular institutional setting affect the forms of the apologies produced there. The project will thus inform both the literature on apologies specifically and to speech acts more generally.

该项目分析了联邦刑事被告在量刑听证期间利用判决权的方式。当有机会在法庭上发言时，被告通常会向他们的家人、法院或政府做出某种道歉。自然发生的道歉为研究情感意义、各种情感、态度和关系倾向的交流提供了一个丰富的平台，因为道歉的诚意对于它的成功表现至关重要，而这似乎是其他言语行为所不具备的。调查人员将确定选择一种道歉形式与其他道歉形式相比所产生的含意，并将这些含意与听证所形成的意识形态联系起来，以评估道歉的相对善意。本研究将有助于对道歉言语行为的总体理解，以及这一特定制度背景的制约如何影响道歉言语形式的具体方式。因此，该项目将为具体的道歉文献和更广泛的言语行为文献提供信息。