The study investigates how the narrative tactic termed “Entexualization” is used through language ideology as a socially, culturally, and historically driven factor in controlling defendants and witnesses not only within the trial system, but also across social contexts via the influence of mass media. The term “Entexualization” has been defined as “the process of rendering discourse extractable of making a stretch of linguistic production into a unit a text that can be lifted out of its interactional setting” (Eades 2012: 475). During the process of “Entexualization”, various social and cultural factors have a great influence on shaping and creating assumptions on ideologies, which lead the jury perceiving or coming to a decision based on claims that may have been influenced by the imbalanced social views of the prosecutions. These biased assumptions eventually contribute to the “inequality” and “imbalance” of social justification. Eades examined Pinkabe case in which three Australian Aboriginal boys being charged for “unlawful deprivation of liberty being laid against the six police officer” after they filed a complaint against those six police officers for being violent and oppressive …show more content…
In the analyzation of part of the three boys’ report about how the police got them into the police cars, the ideologies of “decontextualized fragments”, ”narrator authorship” and “repeated questioning” were used. The use of word “grab” by one of the boys was taken out of its original context and interpreted on its own. Then the ideology of inconsistency was used to support their claim that the inconsistency found in the boys’ statements are based on the texts that are inter-changeably