Signalling Sites of Contention in Judicial Discourse. An Exploratory Corpus- Based Analysis of Selected Stance Nouns in US Supreme Court Opinions and Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal Judgments [PDF]
This paper adopts a comparative, corpus-based perspective to examine the language of judicial justification. Based on substantial corpus data, the study explores one of the linguistics resources, i.e. head nouns (e.g.
Stanisław GOŹDŹ-ROSZKOWSKI
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Critical approaches to comparative legal linguistics
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Anne Wagner
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A cross-lingual analysis of attitudinal meaning in publicity discourses of Anglo-American and Chinese universities: a psychological insight from the appraisal system [PDF]
IntroductionUniversity publicity discourse is pivotal to global communication, embodying institutional values and cultural identities. While linguistic research on its embedded attitudinal meaning abounds, cross-lingual (English-Chinese) comparative ...
Lu Zheng
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Heikki E.S. Mattila, «Comparative Legal Linguistics»
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Carles Duarte i Montserrat
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LAW AND LEGAL LINGUISTICS IN A CONSTANT STATE OF TRANSITION
Legal linguistics or jurilinguistics as it has been called recently, is a relatively new field of research. The first research into the field started with analysing the content of laws (the epistemic stage). Later on, lawyers started being interested in
Anne WAGNER, Aleksandra MATULEWSKA
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Preface: Law and Legal Linguistics in a Constant State of Transition
Legal linguistics or jurilinguistics as it has been called recently, is a relatively new field of research. The first research into the field started with analysing the content of laws (the epistemic stage).
Wagner Anne, Matulewska Aleksandra
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Journal “Legal Linguistics”: abstract review
The result of close and significant social, state and scientific interaction between language and law is the development of a new applied branch of linguistic knowledge – Legal Linguistics. The term “legal linguistics” was introduced in 1999. At the same
I. N. Mursa, K. D. Shadrina
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FOUNDATIONS OF PRAGMATIC LEGAL LINGUISTICS
In this review essay, I describe some basic problems in the research into the legal language that are methodologically connected to linguistic and philosophical pragmatics. I call this area of knowledge pragmatic legal linguistics.
Marcus Galdia
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Examining Evaluativity in Legal Discourse: A Comparative Corpus-Linguistic Study of Thick Concepts
How evaluative are legal texts? Do legal scholars and jurists speak a more descriptive or perhaps a more evaluative language? In this paper, we present the results of a corpus study in which we examined the use of evaluative language in both the legal domain as well as public discourse. For this purpose, we created two corpora.
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