OFFERING BRIBES: A LEGI-PRAGMATIC PERSPECTIVE

Challenges of the Knowledge Society

Basim Yahya Jasim AL-GBURI¹ 

[1] English, College of Arts, University of Mosul, Iraq.;

关键词: bribery;    pragmatic analysis;    forensic linguistics;    criminal evidence;    iraqi context bribery in iraq;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Offering a bribe is generally thought of as giving something of value with corrupt intent to influence an action of acivil servant in his official capacity. This act can be accomplished physically or verbally hiding behind elaborate code wordsbuilt in socio-pragmatic norms specific to a given community so that they can easily mislead those outside the transaction. Thepresent paper approaches this offence from two perspectives: legal and pragmatic. It shows how it has been perceived incriminal laws and how it is realized through socio-linguistic expressions which can potentially be understood by theinteractants as signs of offering bribes. The study is guided by two research questions: Are there linguistic expressions fromwhich the speakers of Iraqi Arabic can typically infer that the speaker is offering bribes? And what insights can the pragmaticanalysis offer the judge or trier of facts in evaluating the evidence on this offence? The major argument in the present paper isthat the linguistic evidence can have no less evidentiary value in detecting the corrupt intent of bribery than the circumstantialevidence.

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