Language and Legal Judgments

Evaluation and Argument in Judicial Discourse

Stanisław Goźdź-Roszkowski

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Routledge
06 February 2024

Writing & editing guides; Semantics; Jurisprudence & philosophy of law; Comparative law; Legal skills & practice

Series: Law, Language and Communication

Integrating research methods from linguistics with contemporary legal argumentation theory, this book highlights the complexities of legal justification by focusing on the role of value-laden language in argument construction and use. The combination of linguistic analysis and the pragma-dialectic approach to legal argumentation yields a new way of perceiving and understanding the phenomenon of evaluation, one that offers theoretical and practical gains. Analyzing a vast corpus of judicial opinions from the US Supreme Court and Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal, the book paints a clear picture of complex linguistic choices made by judges to assess and support arguments in the justifications of their decisions. The book will be of interest to scholars in Law, Linguistics and Rhetoric, as well as to judges and practicing lawyers engaged in the art of argumentation.

By: Stanisław Goźdź-Roszkowski
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032366906
ISBN 10: 1032366907
Series: Law, Language and Communication
Pages: 174
Publication Date: 06 February 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

About the Author; Preface; Part I: Introduction; 1. Evaluation. What is it, and why does it matter? 2. Evaluation, argumentation and the justification of judicial decisions; Part II: Evaluative language patterns as a persuasive device; 3. Evaluating processes and propositions; 4. Evaluating status and sites of contention; Part III: Uncovering evoked and less obvious evaluative meanings; 5. Value-based lexis and argument in morally sensitive issues; 6. Evaluative language, the Ideal Model of Critical Discussion and Strategic Manoeuvring; 7. Pulling the strands together.

Stanisław Goźdź-Roszkowski is Associate Professor and Head of Department of Specialized Languages and Intercultural Communication at the University of Łódź, Poland.