Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Referential Strategies in Northern Irish Restorative Justice Mediation

坎德勒·霍尔曼，由约翰B博士监督。哈维兰将在北方爱尔兰调解期间研究恢复性司法的文化和语言背景。 由于调解是通过交谈互动，它是假设，语言的人参考是一个必不可少的文化和语言资源，调解活动家和参与者语境恢复性司法理论在北方爱尔兰。更一般地说，调解参与者相互谈论对方的微妙方式，只有通过仔细的语言分析才能看到，影响到调解的结果。 恢复性司法是一种刑事司法模式，旨在使受害者、不法行为者和受影响的社区参与修复犯罪造成的伤害。 恢复性司法已发展成为一项全球社会运动，其重点是在因暴力而四分五裂的社区建立持久和平。1996年引入北方爱尔兰。 运用语言人类学理论，研究者将调查这些中介中互动的微观过程，以了解谈论个人和群体如何显示当前对话者以及所指的人之间的社会关系。 例如，他假设参与者的特征，以及恢复必须发生的社区是一个合作的成就，从resotrative正义理论，当地语言使用的惯例，以及参与者之间微妙的互动线索的调解。 霍尔曼将采用多种民族志和语言学研究方法。他将在当地社区进行参与式观察，在那里举行调解会议，记录，语境化，并分析调解员和罪犯样本的普通对话。他将录制调解会议，涉及一系列的冲突和人进行分析，使用会话分析技术。他将对参与者和调解员进行深入访谈。这些数据将被用来测试四个首要的假设语言实践，语法结构，在调解过程中使用的语言，和调解outcomes.The研究是重要的，因为它将有助于全球社会运动的理论是如何通过在特定地点的语言实践语境化。这项研究将有助于了解冲突后调解的成败。该项目还将有助于社会科学家的教育。

Candler Hallman, supervised by Dr. John B. Haviland, will undertake research on the cultural and linguistic contextualization of restorative justice during mediation in Northern Ireland. As mediation is achieved through talk-in-interaction, it is hypothesized that linguistic person reference is an essential cultural and linguistic resource with which mediator-activists and participants contextualize restorative justice theory in Northern Ireland. More generally, the subtle ways in which mediation participants speak about one another, visible only through careful linguistic analysis, affect the outcome of mediation. Restorative justice is a model of criminal justice that seeks to engage the victim, the wrongdoer, and the affected community in repairing the harm caused by a crime. Restorative justice has evolved into a global social movement focused on building long-lasting peace in communities torn apart by violence. It was introduced into Northern Ireland in 1996. Using linguistic anthropological theory, the researcher will investigate the micro-processes of interaction in these mediations to understand how talking about individuals and groups displays social relationships between current interlocutors as well as the person or persons referred to. For example, he hypothesizes that the characterization of the participants, as well as the community to which restoration must occur is a collaborative achievement formulated from the theory of resotrative justice, local conventions of language use, and mediation by subtle interactive cues signaled between participants. Hallman will employ multiple ethnographic and linguistic research methods. He will use participant observation in the local communities in which the mediation sessions are held to record, contextualize, and anlyze ordinary conversation of a sample of mediators and offenders. He will tape mediation sessions involving a range of conflicts and persons to be analyzed using conversational analysis techniques. He will conduct indepth interviews of participants and mediators. These data will be used to test four overarching hypotheses about linguistic practices, grammatical constructions, the use of language during the mediation process, and mediation outcomes.The research is important because it will contribute to theory about how global social movements are contextualized through language practices at particular sites. The research will help to understand the successes and failures of post-conflict mediation. The project also will contribute to the education of a social scientist.