| dc.contributor.author | Odera, Josephine | |
| dc.contributor.author | Achieng, Lucy | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ochieng, Robert Onyango | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-04-08T09:54:32Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-04-08T09:54:32Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-07 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Odera, J; Achieng, L & Ochieng, R (2019). Linguistic Strategies Employed during Examination of Children in Conflict with the Law in Eldoret Children’s Court, Kenya | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2523-6725 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://ir.jooust.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/9397 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This article focuses on children in conflict with the law and how they participate in court
based on the linguistic strategies employed during examination phase in the courtroom. The
data obtained was analyzed using Critical Discourse Analysis theory (CDA) by Norman
Fairclough. CDA sees discourse as a social practice that involves the world socially and how
it is made composed by other social practices. The theory holds that a study of the microdiscourse structures such as lexical choices and syntactic form in a given context leads to an
understanding of the macro-discourse social structures such as power. The study adopted a
descriptive design method because the variables were not manipulated. The study was carried
out in the children’s court in Eldoret, Uasin Gishu County. This is because Eldoret is close to
the researcher and also being the major towns in North Rift region, the courts around have
cases involving children that they handle. Therefore the research would also benefit the other
courts across the country. The sample of the study was obtained through stratified purposeful
sampling. The study targeted 20 children in criminal cases. The main instruments of data
collection were audio recordings of the court proceedings and interview schedules of
children’s advocate both the prosecution and the defense attorney. The target population were
children of 8 to 15 years old. From the analyses it is established that evidentiary rules
empower those who assume the examiner role i.e. the prosecutor and the defense counsel by
placing them in control of topic choice and change, and giving them the means to constrain
the contributions of others. However, children in conflict with the law are not always able to
exploit the language and master the courtroom discourse available to the prosecutor/lawyer. .
The children in conflict with the law usually find it hard to participate fully in a trial due to
the nature of the courtroom language | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Journal of African Interdisciplinary Studies (JAIS | en_US |
| dc.subject | Kenya | en_US |
| dc.subject | linguistic strategies | en_US |
| dc.subject | examination | en_US |
| dc.subject | children in conflict with the law | en_US |
| dc.title | Linguistic Strategies Employed during Examination of Children in Conflict with the Law in Eldoret Children’s Court, Kenya | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |