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JohnGibbons
UniversityofSydney
ABSTRACT
ThereisasmallliteratureonthetransformationsthatoccurintranscriptsinlegalEnglish(Eades,1996;
Walker,1990),butlittleonwhathappensinlanguagesotherthan
English.ThisisanimportantissueforRoman/Continentallawsystems,whichrelyintheirdecision-makinglargelyuponwrittentranscriptsoforalevidence.
Thisstudyexaminesthelinguisticconsequencesofthetranscriptionprocess,baseduponSpanishlanguagetaperecordingsoforalsubmissions,andthewritten'
declaraciones'
(statements)thatemerge,inalabourcourtinSantiagodeChile.
Itrevealsfar-reachingconsequencesforthelanguageoftheevidence,particularlybecauseofthegreaterplanningandeditingpotentialofwriting.Therearetendenciestomovetomorecomplexsyntacticstructures,tousemorepassivetypestructurestherebycolouringblameattribution,tousemoretechnicallanguage,andtoeditmaterial,bothunnecessaryredundancies,andsubstantivefacts.
ThesefindingssupportcurrentchangestotheChileanjusticesystem,whichreplacethistypeofinterviewwithopencourthearings.
Introduction
TheChileanjusticesystem
TheChileansystemofjusticeisapartoftheworld'
smostwidespreadformofjustice,RomanLaw.Itisaninquisitorialsystem,attemptingtouncovertruththroughquestioningandtheexaminationofdocumentaryandmaterialevidence.Unliketheadversarialsystem,mostcourtroomquestioningofwitnessesisdonebyarelator,acourtofficialwithlegaltraining,andthistestimonyistypedupintheformofarelatoaswitnessesspeak.Ifawitnessisevasiveorfailstoappear,thisistakenasanadmissionofguiltorculpability.Usuallyseveralwitnessesinacasearequestioned,andthissequenceofinterviewsiscalledanaudiencia.Thesetofrelatosarethenpassedtothejudgewithasummarywrittenbytherelator.Mostjudgmentsarereachedonthebasisofthiswritteninformation,particularlythesummary,butjudgesmaychoosetointerviewthewitnessesthemselves,particularlyifthereisaconflictorissuethatisnotresolvedbytherelator'
sinterviews.
Attheendof2000aprocessofchangebeganintheChileanlegalsystem,withamoveinsomepartsofthecountrytoamoreadversarialjusticesystemalongthelinesofsimilarchangesinGermany,ItalyandArgentina,butithadnotreachedSantiagoatthetimeofthisinvestigation.Thesechangesconstituteamovetoanopencourtsystemwithverbatimrecordingofquestioning,andtheChileanPresident'
sspeechtoparliament(note1)onthesechangesstatedexplicitlythattheyareintendedtoincreaseaccountabilityandtransparency.
ThispaperwillexaminewhathappensintheprocessoftheconversionfromspokeninteractiontowrittenmonologuesinceasfarasIamawarethereisalmostnoinformationonthis,andindeedonlylimitedinformationonlegalSpanish(butseeDuarteinMonserrat&
Martí
nez,1995).ThepaperandthrowlightonsomeoftheissuesunderlyingthecurrentchangestotheChileanjudicialsystem.
Theinterview
Theinterviewswithwitnessesandpartiesperformedbyarelatorgothroughaseriesofstages;
inMartin'
s(1992)termstheinterviewisagenre.Beforetheinterviewbeginstherelatormayobtainfromthelawyersanyquestionthattheywantaskedintherepreguntasstageoftheinterview(thereisnodirectexaminationbyopposinglawyersofthetypefoundintheCommonLawsystem).Theinterviewgenreisalongthefollowinglines.
Figure1Theinterviewgenre
PersonalData
Identification:
theintervieweeproducesaNationalIdentityCard,andtherelatorinsertsthedetails,includingfullnameandidentitynumberonthewordprocessor
Employment:
"
¿
Profesió
nuoficio?
(Professionoremployment?
)
Address:
Domicilio?
(Homeaddress?
Swearingin(Juramento)"
Juropordiosdecirlaverdad"
(Iswearby
Godtotellthetruth)
InterviewProper(Declaració
n)
Framing
Formofreplies
Formofquestions
Typeofquestions
Thecaseandtheparticipants
Examination
dependsonthecase,butoftenwhat,when,who,whereandwhyquestions(perhapswiththatorderunderlying);
responsesareroutinelyreformulatedbytherelatorasyesnoconfirmationquestions,anditisthesereformulationsthattendtoberecorded.
Lawyers'
questions(Repreguntas)
Ending
Conclusion
Transcriptreadaloudforchecking/changes
Intervieweesigns
Thecontext
ThecourtthatIamdiscussingtodayistheOctavoJuzgadoLaboraldeSantiago,theEighthSantiagoLaborCourt.Labourcourtshandledisputesbetweenemployersandemployeesonthebasisoflabourlaw.TheOctavoJuzgadooccupiesascruffymultistoreybuildingonabusycornerindowntownSantia