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Genre-based analysis of the realisation of concession in judicial discourse

Publication date: 2009

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2009, Volume 126, Issue 1, pp. 128 - 148

Authors

Magdalena Szczyrbak
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0182-0938 Orcid
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Genre-based analysis of the realisation of concession in judicial discourse

Abstract

The article aims to contribute a genre-based description of the realisation of Concession in EU judicial discourse. The analysis has been carried out on a corpus of judgments issued by the EU court of last instance, i.e. the European Court of Justice with the intention to identify the patterns and markers of Concession in judicial argumentation. In the analysis the author used the concept of Concession developed by Couper-Kuhlen and Thompson (1999, 2000) following the assumptions underlying Interactional Linguistics. The results revealed the most frequent patterns and markers of Concession in judicial discourse. At the same time, they led the author to the conclusion that the interactional model of Concession developed for analysing the spoken mode of language may successfully be applied in the examination of written data.

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Information: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2009, Volume 126, Issue 1, pp. 128 - 148

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Genre-based analysis of the realisation of concession in judicial discourse

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Genre-based analysis of the realisation of concession in judicial discourse

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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0182-0938

Magdalena Szczyrbak
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0182-0938 Orcid
All publications →

Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

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