Abstract The paper, based on the concept of FOOTING, makes a multimodal discourse analysis of the relationship between the judge’s discourse and his footing shifts in a criminal courtroom. The results show that in the interaction, multimodal resources in judges’ discourse include conversational features (prolonging keywords, interrupting, repeating, taking turns, etc.), acoustic ones (ascending F0 for pitches and dB for intensity, transition tracks between consonants and formants of vowels, duration of some keywords in important sentences, etc.), and visual ones (facing other parties, facing the materials, etc.). The multimodal resources activate different judges’ footings, including ANIMATOR, ANIMATOR + AUTHOR and ANIMATOR + AUTHOR + PRINCIPAL, and identify the judge’s footing shifts in the courtroom. The results also demonstrate that the judge’s footing shifts perform the functions of trial organizing, information confirming, fact investigating, spokesperson of the collegial panel, law educating and so on in criminal trials.

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刑事法庭法官立足转变的多模式话语分析

摘要本文基于“脚”的概念，对法官在法庭上的话语与立足点之间的关系进行了多模态话语分析。结果表明，在互动中，法官话语中的多模态资源包括会话特征（延长关键词，打断，重复，转弯等），声学特征（音调上升F0和强度分贝，辅音和共振峰之间的过渡轨迹）元音，重要句子中某些关键字的持续时间等）和视觉上的（面对其他方，面对材料等）。多模式资源可激活不同的法官立场，包括“动画师”，“动画师+作者”和“动画师+作者+主旨”，并确定法官在法庭上的立足点。