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 constitues 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.

About the Author
Magdalena Szczyrbak, PhD is a lecturer at the Institute of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University. Her research areas include legal discourse analysis and legal translation as well as genre analysis and contrastive studies.

Reviews
The analysis deserves recognition given the amount of data collected, the manner in which the findings are presented, the overall clarity and the reliability of description. All the previously developed analytical categories are justified here and the model of description presented in the introductory part of the chapter is applied flawlessly. The data collected and the comprehensive discussion allow the author to confirm new regularities in the realisation of the Concessive relation and to formulate claims regarding the realisation of the said relation in two Indo-European languages. The description of the data is sufficient, while the number and variety of examples as well as the manner in which they were selected makes the reader appreciate the author as an experienced discourse analyst. -- Andrzej Lyda, University of Silesia



Book Information
ISBN 9788323336273
Author Magdalena Szczyrbak
Format Paperback
Page Count 236
Imprint Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo
Publisher Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo
Weight(grams) 382g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 163mm * 13mm