Özet:

Even though the language in the legal process is one of the major subjects of forensic linguistics, there are only a few studies in this regard in the scientific literature of the Turkish language. One of the reasons is that forensic linguistics has recently become a subject for study in Turkey, and the other reason is the hardship of accessing real forensic data. This study aimed to detect communicative purposes of statement parts and to reveal qualitative findings on these purposes by analysing moves of statements given by defendants in court who were accused of sexual assault and child sexual abuse, which were defined under articles 102 and 103 of the Turkish Criminal Code. At the end of the study, which was conducted on data from an open-source by close reading, five different moves were identified and named as acknowledgement, denial, palliation, sympathy, and accusation. Information regarding moves’ content and prospects was presented under subtitles with these names. Findings seem to be promising for further studies in the future in terms of both this specific topic and (descriptive) forensic linguistics in general.

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