The Realisation of Concession in the Discourse of Judges

• Druk: Kraków, 2013
• Autor: Magdalena Szczyrbak
• Wydawca: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego

Complementing other studies on judicial discourse, this book investigates previously unexplored areas, focusing on the realisation of Concession in the genre of judgment. In addition to providing a review of approaches to concessivity as well as legal and linguistic perspectives on argumentation, the analysis draws on genre studies and follows a genre-based view of legal language. It shows the way in which the Concessive relation is deployed by last-instance courts, as revealed by an examination of EU and Polish judgments. In what constitutes a pioneering attempt to identify tripartite Concessive patterns in written data, the author breaks away from the traditional view of written legal discourse seen as static and monologic communication. Instead, she offers insights into the linguistic construction of judicial argumentation, seen as a “mute dialogue” with the addressee, highlighting recurrent argumentative schemata and related discourse signals and functions. Combining quantitative and qualitative approaches, the analysis demonstrates that the dialogic model of Concession, designed as a tool for an examination of talk-in-interaction, can be successfully applied in an investigation of written data. The book is aimed at students and researchers with interests in legal discourse, genre analysis and argumentation studies.

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• Język wydania: angielski
• ISBN: 978-83-233-3627-3
• Liczba stron: 242

INTRODUCTION  11
PART I THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS  15
CHAPTER ONE CONCESSION: AN OVERVIEW OF APPROACHES  17
1.1. Semantic-syntactic approach to concession  17
	1.1.1. Defi ning concessive connection  17
1.2. CONCESSION as a relation in Rhetorical Structure Theory  28
	1.2.1. Text relations in RST  28
	1.2.2. Defi ning CONCESSION in RST  31
1.3. Discourse-pragmatic concept of Concession  35
	1.3.1. Defi ning Concession as an interactional sequence  35
	1.3.2. Concessive moves  40
	1.3.3. Concessive schemata  49
	1.3.4. Pragmatic marking of Concession  55
CHAPTER TWO JUDICIAL ARGUMENTATION: LEGAL AND LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVES  59
2.1. Subject-matter of argumentative discourse studies  59
2.2. Historical background of argumentative discourse studies  61
2.3. Defi ning legal and judicial argumentation  63
2.4. Theories of legal argumentation  65
	2.4.1. Historical perspective on legal argumentation  66
	2.4.2. Pragma-dialectical perspective on legal argumentation  73
		2.4.2.1. General assumptions of the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation  74
		2.4.2.2. Application of the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation in the legal context  77
CHAPTER THREE ANALYSING GENRE: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES  83
3.1. Defi ning discourse  83
3.2. Discourse community revisited  87
3.3. Genre  90
	3.3.1. Defi ning genre  90
	3.3.2. Analysing genre  93
3.4. Genre-based view of legal discourse  96
3.5. Analysing the genre of judgment  103
PART II THE REALISATION OF CONCESSION IN THE GENRE OF JUDGMENT  109
CHAPTER FOUR CONCEPT OF THE STUDY AND THE DATA  111
4.1. Research objectives  111
4.2. Research questions  112
4.3. Procedure  113
4.4. Corpus design and the source of data  114
4.5. Contextual analysis of the genre of judgment  118
	4.5.1. Generic structure of judgments in the corpus  125
CHAPTER FIVE ANALYSIS OF THE DATA  129
5.1. Concessive schemata  129
	5.1.1. Identifi cation of monologic schemata: pseudo-dyadic and monadic patterns  129
5.2. Concessive moves  133
	5.2.1. Identifi cation of moves: acknowledgments and counterclaims  133
	5.2.2. Distribution of acknowledgments and counterclaims  135
5.3. Signalling associated with Concession  139
	5.3.1. Categories of Concessive signals recognised in the corpus  140
	5.3.2. Frequency of occurrence of Concessive signals in the corpus  149
	5.3.3. Distribution of Concessive signals in the moves  153
	5.3.4. Co-occurrence of Concessive signals  159
5.4. Metafunctions of Concessive moves  164
	5.4.1. Ideational metafunctions of Concessive moves  165
	5.4.2. Interpersonal metafunctions of Concessive moves  169
	5.4.3. Textual metafunctions of Concessive moves  177
	5.4.4. Function-form correlation: Co-occurrence of Concessive signals and metafunctions  180
5.5. Corpus data against previous fi ndings  189
CONCLUSIONS  203
LIST OF FIGURES  211
LIST OF TABLES  213
APPENDICES
Appendix 1a  215
Appendix 1b  217
Appendix 2  219
REFERENCES  225