Conversational Analysis The Judge and Lawyers’ Courtroom Interactions

In judicial settings, courtroom interaction varies from time to time, depending on the character and personality, ability and proficiency, and style and manner of individual participants. This paper investigates and examines the relevance of the courtroom interactions as reflected in the organization of points and in the sequence of turn taking system, specifically the analysis of interactional activities, techniques used, and functions of transition and conditional at talk in interactions. Based on the limited materials or source, only one Official Transcript with audio-recordings from RTC Branch 12, Lipa City, Batangas was utilized as the corpus of my study. The corpus is about the civil case between the telecommunication service provider, generic name (plaintiff) and the City Government of Lipa, Batangas.

Keywords –Conversation; courtroom interactions; talk; turn taking