The Pragmatics of Defendants’ Refusal Strategies in Saudi Courtroom Discourse

This study investigates the refusal strategies employed by defendants in Saudi judicial discourse, drawing upon a corpus of official legal rulings issued by the Saudi Ministry of Justice. While previous pragmatic research has explored refusal strategies in educational and social contexts, little att...

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Published in:	Corpus pragmatics : international journal of corpus linguistics and pragmatics Vol. 10; no. 1
Main Authors:	Alshammari, Bunder Sebail, Karam, Khaled Mostafa, Eissa, Mohamed
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Cham Springer International Publishing 19.11.2025
Subjects:	Computational Linguistics Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities Linguistics Original Paper Pragmatics Semantics Social Sciences Speech acts Saudi legal system Judicial discourse Courtroom interaction Refusal strategies Pragmatics
ISSN:	2509-9507, 2509-9515
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