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Title: The Discursive Construction of Certainty and Uncertainty in the Scientific Texts of Forensic Psychiatry
Authors: Scardigno, Rosa
Grattagliano, Ignazio
Manuti, Amelia
Mininni, Giuseppe
Affiliation: University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
Bibliographic description (Ukraine): Scardigno R., Grattagliano I., Manuti A., Mininni G. The Discursive Construction of Certainty and Uncertainty in the Scientific Texts of Forensic Psychiatry / R. Scardigno , I. Grattagliano , A. Manuti , G. Mininni // East European Journal of Psycholinguistics / Lesya Ukrainka Eastern European National University. – Lutsk, 2020. – Volume 7, Number 1 – P. 156-170.https://doi.org/10.29038/eejpl.2020.7.1.sca
Journal/Collection: East European Journal of Psycholinguistics
Issue Date: 2020
Date of entry: 28-May-2021
Publisher: Lesya Ukrainka Eastern European National University
Country (code): UA
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29038/eejpl.2020.7.1.sca
Keywords: scientific communication
certainty/uncertainty
socio-epistemic rhetoric
diatextual analysis
Page range: 156-170
Abstract: A common ground between mental health and judicial-legal domains concerns concepts like “care”, “control” and “possibility to foresee” human behaviour, with particular reference to the “social dangerousness”. The connections between these sense-making practices can be traced by discursive modulation of “certainty/uncertainty”. This study aimed to highlight the discursive peculiarities of a specific socio-cultural context and genre, namely scientific papers. The corpus of data consisted in a selection of 30 papers published by the BJP (from 1975 to 2015), on subjects concerning forensic psychiatry, subjected to Content Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis. Results showed that the papers adopted two main socio-epistemic rhetorics. On one side, the enunciators proceeded in an “assertive” and rigorous manner through a social-epistemic rhetoric of “reassurance”; on the other side, they gave voice to rhetoric of the “limit”, lacking any cognitive “closure”.
URI: https://evnuir.vnu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/19483
Content type: Article
Appears in Collections:East European Journal of Psycholinguistics, 2020, Volume 7, Number 1

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