Publications

Publication details [#51023]

D'hondt, Sigurd. 2009. Others on trial: The construction of cultural otherness in Belgian first instance criminal hearings. Journal of Pragmatics 41 (4) : 806–828.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

courtroom conversation | ethnography | language and culture | minority | self-representation

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article offers an ethnographic account of 'problematic' and 'unproblematic' discursive culturalizations in first instance criminal courtrooms in Belgium. The judiciary's symbolic 'empty' self-representation is said to form the basis of the discussed differential treatment.