The courtroom provides an institutionalized setting where social justice is negotiated through the questioning of witnesses. Nearly every turn-to-talk of the counsel contains a question and every turn-to-talk of the witness may or may not supply the information requested. Therefore, in order to get the relevant information from the witness and aiming at getting the information that in flavor to their clients. The counsel uses a variety of questioning techniques which will help them to win the case. On the other side, the language used by interpreters, witnesses and magistrate is rather different to the lawyers because they are supposed to be neutral and only responsible to tell the truth.
Aiming at getting trust from the jury, the lawyer's language has to be persuasive, or at least sounds to be persuasive. They have to provide evidences to prove their client is innocent or to prosecute someone.
The questions raised by the solicitors are well organized and there is certain degree of linkage between questions. Their questions try to lead the witness into the right track and to give the relevant information that is in flavor to his client.
Interpret solicitors' and the magistrate's questions and instructions
The interpreter is also responsible for the sight interpreting of the legal documents to the witness. In the case we heard, one of the solicitor referred to an ordinance and he wanted to make sure that the witness read and understands the ordinance. Therefore, the interpreter then point out the specified ordinance to the witness and interpret it to the witness to make sure that she understands what is the ordinance about.
The language used by the interpreter
The language used by the magistrate is strong and clear. In order to show the dignity of the magistrate, the language used by him/her is firm and powerful. In the case we heard, we can't analysis the language features on how the magistrate giving ratio decidendi because it's still at the earlier stage of the trial. However, we still can discover some of those features by looking at an interesting incident happened in the case we heard. It happened during D1's lawyer had made some mistakes in the turn of his questioning section. D3's lawyer tried to help him out on clarify and correct the mistakes that D1's lawyer had made to the magistrate without standing up. The magistrate pointed to him and said, " Stand up before you want to say an
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