Affiliation:
1. University of Huddersfield
2. Queen’s University Belfast
3. Sheffield Hallam University
Abstract
Abstract
This article uses Text World Theory (Werth 1999; Gavins 2007) in conjunction with VUE (Visual Understanding Environment) concept mapping software to analyze three
statements from the trial of Amanda Knox, who was charged (along with her boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito) with the murder of
Meredith Kercher in 2007. We compare the cognitive patterns (i.e. text-worlds) as reflected in Knox’s statements and use the
insights gained to guide an examination of their individual linguistic features and associated potential legal implications. In
the first two dictated statements, Knox is projected as an actor responsible for the reported actions/events that
implicate her in the crime, whereas in the third statement (handwritten in English), she is projected as a
senser, presenting more prominent epistemic uncertainty and indicating bewilderment. Further micro-level
linguistic comparison indicates signs of textual alteration in the first two statements, i.e. crucial text was altered and thus
resulted in a change of meaning and legal significance.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
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