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Background Background
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The Investigation The Investigation
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Speech Event Speech Event
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Stage 1: Reporting Progress Stage 1: Reporting Progress
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Stage 2: Negotiating and Planning Next Steps Stage 2: Negotiating and Planning Next Steps
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Stage 3: Agreement about How to Accomplish the Speech Event Stage 3: Agreement about How to Accomplish the Speech Event
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Schemas Schemas
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Agendas Agendas
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Speech Acts Speech Acts
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Conversational Strategies Conversational Strategies
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The Ambiguity Strategy The Ambiguity Strategy
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The Hit and Run Strategy The Hit and Run Strategy
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The Withholding Crucial Information Strategy The Withholding Crucial Information Strategy
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Smoking Guns Smoking Guns
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Commission Commission
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Payment Payment
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Silent Partner Silent Partner
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Certifications Certifications
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Paid through EIC [the French Parent Company] Paid through EIC [the French Parent Company]
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Handled the Same Way Handled the Same Way
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You Don’t Have to Know (Laugh) You Don’t Have to Know (Laugh)
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Conclusion of the Case Conclusion of the Case
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Abstract
Linguistic analysis was used in a case involving the US Foreign Military Financing (FMF) Program’s investigation of an American company manufacturing helicopters for the military. The owner was charged with violating federal laws relating to the expenditure of government funding by defrauding the government and paying a commission to a broker, illegal under the FMF guidelines. Investigators convinced one of the company’s employees to tape-record seventeen conversations with the company’s president. The government believed the tapes implicated the president. Analysis demonstrated how the cooperating witness used deceptive ambiguity in the speech event that then produced very different schemas, agendas, and speech acts. Analysis demonstrated how the president did not agree with the cooperating witness’s plans and ideas, and that the employee’s ambiguous conversational strategies did not entice the president into committing illegality. The prosecution’s seven smoking gun expressions were defused by the context of their conversations.
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