Abstract
The murder of Jamal Khashoggi in the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Turkey is still controversial. The judgment relies on valid and reliable evidence. This study is vital due to investigating a murder case based on pragmatic meanings as language evidence broadcasted in media. This research employs Grice’s conversational implicature to investigate the murder of Jamal Khashoggi by analyzing the exposed recorded tapes of Jamal Khashoggi and the accused inside the consulate, the utterances of Khadija Changiz, the fiancée of Jamal Khashoggi, and Adel al Jubeir’s statements, the foreign minister of Saudi Arabia as a representative of the Saudi Arabian. The design of this research is a case study, and content analysis is used to analyze the data based on Mayring’s (2000) qualitative content analysis. Based on the findings of the study, the recorded tapes of Jamal Khashoggi and the accused are outlined as ambiguous language. Saudi Arabia denied the murder by saving face, misleading the hearer, and skipping the questions, but later on, affirmed the murder and promised to bring justice. Hence, the results of this study will affect the verdict on the judicial decree, and the accusations will be prosecuted, and justice will be served to Jamal Khashoggi.
Highlights
IntroductionForensic linguistic has gained peoples' attention in the world. The term forensic linguistics was first coined by Svartvik (1968), and there are so many organizations that support the development of forensic linguistics
In a few years, forensic linguistic has gained peoples' attention in the world
The term forensic linguistics was first coined by Svartvik (1968), and there are so many organizations that support the development of forensic linguistics
Summary
Forensic linguistic has gained peoples' attention in the world. The term forensic linguistics was first coined by Svartvik (1968), and there are so many organizations that support the development of forensic linguistics. Some linguists are interested in the language of written law, originality, and language use in forensic procedures, and the study starts from the judicial point of arrest to the trial and sentence stage (Ariani et al, 2014) In line with this view, Momeni (2012) cited that forensic linguists are boosting their works in the communication and advertisement, which includes sound identification, identification of writer of a written text, miscommunication between lawyers and client, perjury, problems related to the legal texts, libel, problems with brands, interpretation, and translation of communication in courts and recorded interviews as evidence. Forensic linguistics is limited to the crimes like murder, suicide, bribe or stealing and assisting the police in courts and is a applied to various issues by scientifically accepted principles of linguistic analysis to legal evidence and using the descriptive linguistic technique (Malcolm & Coulthard, 1997) such as phonology and phonetics, lexis, syntax, pragmatics, discourse, and text analysis (cited in Ariani et al, 2014)
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