Two modes of referring to the case file in the courtroom. The use of indirect reported text and text-as-addressed speech in case summaries

摘要: Abstract This paper analyzes summaries of the written case file which judges produce at onset pre-parole pluridisciplanary hearings for assessing future dangerousness an inmate. Such are a highly reflexive discursive practice, as inmate who appears before committee is simultaneously object expert assessments that re-enacted by judge and recipient these reenactments. Both production summary extended turn-at-talk procedures referring to sensitive this “participative dilemma”. Two different modes identified: “indirect reported text” “text-as-addressed speech.” Each has sequential implications invokes epistemic domains asymmetries.