This is great, Graham. Remi, that's what we need. Thank you and have a good weekend. Natasha Graham Smart wrote: > 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 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To leave the list, send a SIGNOFF CASLL command to [log in to unmask] or, if you experience difficulties, write to Russ Hunt at [log in to unmask] For the list archives and information about the organization, its newsletter, and the annual conference, go to http://www.stu.ca/inkshed/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-