Exploring the Stylistic Devices of the Police Interrogations
Dr. Qasim Obayes Al-Azzawi, Hasan Imad Kadhim
Listeners and readers need to be provided with a number of ways of comprehending the nature and the relationship of questioning, i.e. interrogating of the police interrogation between detectives and suspects inside the interrogation room from a linguistic point of view. However, excerpting the truth from the mouths of the suspects is not that easy task unless it is preceded by certain skills and strategies utilised by the detective to arrive at the confession and the judiciary evidences. The present paper deals with the concept of stylistic devices of the police interrogations. What is more, the current study tries to answer the following questions: first, what are the devices that are used in police interrogation? Second, what is the most frequent one that is used by interrogators. Third, what are the stylistic functions of these uses? Furthermore, the paper aims at investigating the stylistics devices and finding out to what extent their use could serve the process of interrogation and truth The methodology of this paper is based on Leech and Short model of figurative language. The present paper concludes that the stylistic devices are used by the interrogators and the suspects inside the interrogation room, this can serve the process of confession which is primarily meant to be elicited from the mouths of the suspects.
Keywords: Stylistic devices, Interrogation, Officer, Suspect
