{"title":"Explicit and implicit discursive strategies and moral order in a\u0000 trial process","authors":"Iphigenia Moulinou","doi":"10.1075/JLAC.00021.MOU","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JLAC.00021.MOU","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The present paper examines data which has been drawn from the\u0000 official proceedings of a murder trial in a Greek court, concerning the killing\u0000 of an adolescent by a police officer (see also Georgalidou 2012, 2016), and addresses the issues of aggressive discursive strategies\u0000 and the moral order in the trial process. It analyses the explicit and implicit\u0000 strategies involved in morally discrediting the opponent, a rather frequent\u0000 defence strategy (Atkinson and Drew\u0000 1979; Coulthard and Johnson\u0000 2007; Levinson 1979). The\u0000 paper examines agency deflection towards the victim (Georgalidou 2016), attribution of a socio-spatial\u0000 identity to the victim and witnesses in an essentialist and reductionist way,\u0000 and other linguistic and discursive means, the majority of which mobilize moral\u0000 panic and have implications for the moral order in court. I argue that these\u0000 aggressive discursive means primarily contribute to the construction of a\u0000 normative moral order by both adversarial parties.","PeriodicalId":324436,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122591943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}