Lay participation in criminal trials has primarily been studied in common law systems, thereby mainly focusing on the separate role of juries. These studies have provided detailed accounts of language use between jurors during deliberation as well as their use of storytelling techniques and common-sense reasoning in decision-making. However, only few studies have focused on the linguistic learning processes that lay judges in other legal systems go through when they deliberate casestogetherwith a professional judge both in reaching a verdict and in sentencing. In Denmark, lay judges are appointed for a period of four years, and this paper presents findings from an ethnographic study of lay judges and their growing experience with interactions in the deliberation room. It argues that lay judges learn to use legal language in order to strengthen their arguments vis-à-vis the professional judges. Lay judges feel that their influence is dependent on how well they master new, legal context-specific ways of expressing themselves, a point that may run counter to their legitimation as lay voices in an otherwise formalized judiciary.

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以非律师身份使用法律语言：丹麦外行法官在刑事审判中的语言策略

普通法系主要研究非专业人士参与刑事审判，因此主要关注陪审团的独立作用。这些研究详细说明了陪审员在审议期间的语言使用情况，以及他们在决策中使用讲故事的技巧和常识推理。然而，只有少数研究关注其他法律制度的外行法官在审理案件时所经历的语言学习过程一起与专业法官一起作出判决和量刑。在丹麦，非专业法官的任期为四年，本文介绍了对非专业法官的民族志研究的结果以及他们在审议室互动中的成长经验。它认为，非专业法官学习使用法律语言是为了加强他们对专业法官的论点。非专业法官认为他们的影响力取决于他们如何掌握新的、特定于法律背景的表达方式，这一点可能与他们在其他正式司法机构中作为非专业人士的声音的合法性背道而驰。