translate the following paragraphs into Chinese. 5.2.4 The identity ‘judicial official’
Judicial official, an identity of a government body, is different from the business 
clerk identity in that the former has direct jurisdiction over individuals whereas 
the latter does not. In this sense, targets are powerless to challenge the authority, 
having no choice but to obey the command. For instance:
Case (4) Context: A woman G calls Mrs H on her mobile phone. In Case (4), the con artist G directly claims that she is a prosecutor in the Judicial 
Department, assuming a superior–inferior relation with H. G starts the conversa￾tion with an exclamation wei 喂 without any other form of address. The directive 
speech act (‘We need your cooperation.’ ‘We must…’) highlighted by a meticu￾lous, serious, and stern tone further enhances the construction of her identity 
as someone with a much higher social status. Then G accelerates her speed of 
talking, resorts to an intimidating and coercing tone, and urges H to act (empha￾sising ‘This is an emergency! Tell me! Cancel it! Hurry up!’), leaving H no time to suspect her identity. Institutional jargon (‘suspect’, ‘corruption’, ‘embezzlement’, 
‘account restriction’, etc.) coupled with inside information (‘The verification code 
is in fact your case number’) reinforces her official government identity as well. 
Throughout the whole conversation, G exploits H’s anxiety on the one hand 
(warning: ‘You are suspected to be involved in a corruption’) and on the other 
hand eases H’s worry from time to time (promising: ‘in order to exonerate your 
charge; our leader will …’).
5.2.5 The identity ‘resourceful person’
The identity resourceful person refers to the supply–demand relationship that a 
person enacts with his/her conversation partner, usually established on the basis 
of friend/kin identity, business clerk identity, or government official identity. 
Unlike the previous ones, which form a direct emotional or institutional relationship with the target, the identity resourceful person exploits its presumed power, 
wealth, and status to supposedly satisfy the target. Case (5) is an example.
Case (5) Context: Near a real estate agency, a man J approaches Mr K. Mr K was unable 
to find a suitable condo .   In Case (5), the con artist J constructs the identity of a resourceful person in real 
estate by fabricating a familial relationship with the board chairman of Zhongwang Group. Indeed, J’s real name is Liu Zhongping and the board chairman is 
Liu Zhongtian; but the fraternal relationship does not exist. J thus successfully 
constructs a temporary ‘supply–demand’ relationship embedded in the interactional identity of brotherhood. As is evidenced in previous research, deceptive 
and non-deceptive discourse must be interwoven to get a lie across (Galasinski, 
2000; Palena et al., 2019). Interestingly, though J posits his identity in a direct 
manner, he talks in a mysterious tone, which in fact makes K more convinced. 
His assumed familiarity with the construction project and its unit price, showing 
him to be an ‘insider’, serves as a side proof for his made-up identity. What is 
more, the speech act of promise ‘I assure you’, together with ‘I can help you’ construct a helpful personal identity. In the face of the ‘warm-hearted’ and ‘high-status’ brother to the board chairman, the target pays the deposit without hesitation.
By and large, a detailed examination of the fraud cases further shows that certain types of identity may correspond to certain linguistic devices. For instance, 
standard Mandarin plus polite address forms such as the honorific ‘you’ seem to be 
necessary in order to gain trust from strangers with equal status; con artists who 
adopt victim identity, old friend identity, or resourceful person identity turn more 
to speech acts of request and promise, whereas those who adopt judicial identity 
resort to directives; institutional identity such as telecom and judicial officials often 
correspond to con artists referring to themselves as representatives of the institutions.