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2. All charges against Roulet are false and illogical.
Lexicon 3.
All of the testimony of the state’s witnesses and all
evidences support
Roulet’s innocence.
Lexicon
4. There is no prostitute
who got killed
after “had a date
” with Roulet.
Lexicon 5.
There is no prostitute who reports bad thing about
Roulet. Lexicon
6. Louis Roulet is the real victim of set up case by
Regina Campo Lexicon
7. Roulet is an innocent person who suffered by set up
case. Rhetorical Question
and Expression 8.
Roulet never hold the knife when the supposed attack
occurred. Rhetorical question
9. There is no
prostitute who gets injured or got beaten after dating Roulet.
Syntax
10. It is a normal habit of Louis Roulet to carry his knife everyday to wherever he goes.
Syntax 11. Marry Winsor is not lying about her testimony that
she got attacked and raped. Coherence
The topics above clearly show the attempt of giving negative representation to the adversary. The goal is certainly to influence the judge,
juries and the public in the courtroom that out-group or the adversaries prosecutor, victim, victims witness and the police are the agent who
defamed the trial by doing fraudulent and forgery against Haller. They are also depicted negatively by emphasizing issuestopics that they have given
false testimony, done perjury, worked unprofessionally, and used a liar snitch as a witness who helped the prosecutor to imprison an innocent man in the
previous case. By asserting this negative labelling, the judge is eventually influenced by Haller to sentence his client free. As the result, the judge drops
94 all charges upon him as well as blacklists the corrupt prosecutor and the liar
victim from the prosecutorial trial. On the other hand, in describing in-group Haller and his client, Haller
describes his client in positive terms in order to lead people to think that his client is the real victim of a set up case in this trial. Moreover, negative other-
representation and positive self-representation are intended to create an idea that Haller, as a defense lawyer is altruist. It is done by asserting issue that the
prosecutor is a threat for innocent people and he has tarnished American trial. The reason is that the prosecutor provokes the police and the DA to fake the
evidence file in order to win the lawsuit. Therefore, by firing the prosecutor, it would take advantage for other innocent defendants, because there will be no
more corrupt prosecutor who attempts to imprison innocent people. Furthermore, the discourse elements as the discursive strategies have a great
role in legitimizing the ideology of exclusion in order to eliminate the adversaries prosecutor and the victim.
From the topics above, the negative representation of prosecutor, police, and the DA are legitimated by the use of discursive strategies such as
rhetorical question, syntax, expression, coherence, disclaimer, and lexicon. The discussion of the discourse element which consistently supports and
indicates this ideological exclusion is shown as follows.
1 Stylistics of Lexicon Element
This element is used to serve the information which is only beneficial to the in-group and then to create a negative description of out-group. Lexicon
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