Richard's suggestion prompts me to mention a chapter on legal/judicial
argumentation that I noticed today in the collection Persuasion across
Genres (eds. Halmari & Virtanen, John Benjamins, 2005). The title of the
chapter is "Persuasion in judicial argumentation: The opinions of the
advocates general at the European Court of Justice". The author is Tarja
Salmi-Tolonen. (I have the book on interlibrary loan, Natasha, if you want
to look at it).
Also, Chuck Bazerman has written about genre systems in various social
domains, including the legal world. His chapter in Genre and the New
Rhetoric, "Systems of genres and the enactment of social intentions," has a
short section on "Legal systems and systems of genres." As well, his book
The Languages of Edison's Light has lots of discussion about the U.S.
patents system and its texts.
Graham
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Darville" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 6:54 PM
Subject: Re: legal studies and genre
> Hi Natasha,
>
> Just since your fishing line isn't getting a lot of bites ... my studies
> of legal language are far in the past, but two places I'd start looking
> are with the International Association of Forensic Linguists - their web
> site includes bibliographies
> http://web.bham.ac.uk/forensic/IAFL/
> And at Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis News, where the
> Resources link could be searched for "law" "legal" and so on
> http://www.paultenhave.nl/EMCA.htm
>
> Of course the methodologies would depend on the questions being studied,
> but ...
>
> Richard
>
>
> Richard Darville
> School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
> Carleton University
> Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6
> 613-520-2600 x 4026
> 613-520-6641 fax
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> On 2-Oct-07, at 6:08, Natasha Artemeva wrote:
>
>> I apologize for cross-posting
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> A student of mine is looking into methodologies that would allow him to
>> study genres of the legal system in Canada.
>> Could anybody suggest any relevant publications?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Natasha
>>
>> --
>> Natasha Artemeva, Ph. D.
>>
>>
>
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