Your task: Choose one or more extracts (approx. 1500 words long in TOTAL) from ONE of the following transcripts and complete an analysis of the language/interaction, using the methods and frameworks you have been introduced to in weeks 5-10 in the module.
The extract(s) that you have chosen to use must be presented in your appendix and given line numbers. You can copy and paste your selection from the transcription to your word document. MAKE SURE YOU NUMBER EACH LINE. You MUST refer to your data by line number within your essay, and any data examples you use in –text (longer than one word) will not count towards the word count.
Text 1: Direct and Cross Examination of Denise Pilnak, a DEFENSE witness (neighbour) in the O.J Simpson trail. You can select your data from the direct examination, the cross examination, or if you would like to do a comparison, a selection of data from both.
Further details: Your assignment should be presented in accurate and appropriate academic English and use terminology and concepts relevant to the field. It should contain the following:
A. Introduction to the text you have chosen and ‘placing’ of the text within its broader context, as well the wider context of forensic linguistics and methods/frameworks for linguistic analysis of discourse and text. Thus, this section should provide the ‘background’ to your analysis and show that you understand the relationships between your text, FL and linguistic analysis in general.
B. Definitions and brief exemplification of all concepts and analytical terminology used in the analysis, as well as your methodology.
C. A detailed analysis with plentiful annotated exemplification from the transcript text in the main body of the assignment. All examples of more than a single word should be presented indented and with line spaces to mark them from the main body of the assignment and do not count towards the word count for the assignment.
[1] Like this, for example. (l.12)
[2] And again, like this one. (l.15)
All examples should also be referenced by line number to an appendix at the end of your assignment which contains the full text of your chosen extract(s) – NOT THE FULL TRANSCRIPT OF THE TEXT! – with line numbers. All examples should be placed in italics to distinguish them from your words in the assignment, and should be numbered so that you can refer back or forward to different examples where required without having to repeat the same example.
D. Detailed interpretation of your analysed data, referring to FL concepts, supported by scholarly references that show your reading around the topic.
E. Conclusion
F. References (minimum of five academic sources, 3 of which MUST referenced in your reference list, not including Crystal). Every time you use or quote a source in the main body, it should be accompanied by a correctly formatted in-text reference.
One final thing: make sure you read the guidelines for referencing in the EL&C subject guide and remember that in EL&C we do NOT use footnotes.
n these assignments you are expected to show:
• Familiarity with the concepts and approaches used for analysis as taught on the course, and with some of the literature from which these derive.
• Ability to apply some of these concepts and approaches to the discourse examples chosen, at both macro and micro levels of analysis.
• Ability to explain and justify the your analysis in relation to Language of the Law
• Coherence of essay assignment and organisation, have a logical, coherent structure
• Correct referencing, spelling, grammar and punctuation used with formal academic writing style employed
