“Reporting Verbs: a Tool for a Polyphonic Reading of Judgments”

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Publication Date:
2007
Short description:
“Reporting Verbs: a Tool for a Polyphonic Reading of Judgments” / Mazzi, D. - In: Studien zur Rechtskommunikation / D. Heller, K. Ehlich. - STAMPA. - Berna : Peter Lang, 2007. - ISBN 9783039114368. - pp. 183-206
abstract:
The aim of the paper is to carry out a corpus-based analysis of reporting verbs in three comparable corpora of judicial texts. The quantitative and qualitative findings show that reporting verbs may be taken as insightful discursive signals revealing the constitutive interplay of voices in the argumentationn of courts
Iris type:
Capitolo/Saggio
Keywords:
reporting verbs; polyphony; argumentation; legal discourse
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Handle:
https://iris.unimore.it/handle/11380/593382
Book title:
Studien zur Rechtskommunikation