This study examines how collective memory and cultural trauma inhere in the multimodal interplay between macro structures of space-time and microcosmic action. Using a criminal trial as data, we show how collective memories and cultural sentiments function in the multimodal details of poetic oratory and emotionally charged speech to frame evidence, construct legal identity and shape the interpretation of testimony. Legal actors integrate language, gesture and gaze to shift the plane of legal reality into a sacred performance, a solemn and co-operative ritual that contains thoroughly unveiled allusions to the assassinations of President John F Kennedy and Senator Robert F Kennedy. In so doing, lawyers and witness co-construct an emergent space for jurors to step into history and connect to national tragedy as a socio-legal strategy.

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法律秩序中的历史声音、集体记忆和话语间创伤

本研究探讨了集体记忆和文化创伤在时空宏观结构与微观行为之间的多模态相互作用中是如何存在的。使用刑事审判作为数据，我们展示了集体记忆和文化情感如何在诗意的演讲和充满情感的演讲的多模态细节中发挥作用，以构建证据、构建法律身份和塑造证词的解释。法律行为者整合语言、手势和目光，将法律现实的平面转变为神圣的表演，一种庄严而合作的仪式，其中包含对约翰·F·肯尼迪总统和参议员罗伯特·F·肯尼迪被暗杀的彻底揭露的典故。在这样做的过程中，律师和证人共同构建了一个紧急空间，让陪审员进入历史并作为一种社会法律策略与国家悲剧联系起来。