Examining Evaluativity in Legal Discourse: A Comparative Corpus-Linguistic Study of Thick Concepts

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Výsledek na webu

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350278301.0017" target="_blank" >10.5040/9781350278301.0017</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Examining Evaluativity in Legal Discourse: A Comparative Corpus-Linguistic Study of Thick Concepts

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

"How evaluative are legal texts? Do legal scholars and jurists speak a more descriptive or perhaps a more evaluative language? In this paper, we present the results of a corpus study in which we examined the use of evaluative language in both the legal domain as well as public discourse. For this purpose, we created two corpora. Our legal professional corpus is based on court opinions from the U.S. Courts of Appeals. We compared this professional corpus to a public corpus, which is based on blog discussions on the internet forum Reddit. While many linguistic phenomena can give insights into evaluativity, we investigated the use of a wide selection of evaluative adjectives (more specifically, thick adjectives) to gain a more comprehensive picture of the degree of evaluativity in the legal domain. Our analysis shows that legal professionals use thick terms less evaluatively than laypeople, which suggests that legal texts are less evaluative than ordinary discussions. This result, more generally, supports the philosophical idea that thick concepts may vary in their evaluative intensity."

Název v anglickém jazyce

Examining Evaluativity in Legal Discourse: A Comparative Corpus-Linguistic Study of Thick Concepts

Popis výsledku anglicky

"How evaluative are legal texts? Do legal scholars and jurists speak a more descriptive or perhaps a more evaluative language? In this paper, we present the results of a corpus study in which we examined the use of evaluative language in both the legal domain as well as public discourse. For this purpose, we created two corpora. Our legal professional corpus is based on court opinions from the U.S. Courts of Appeals. We compared this professional corpus to a public corpus, which is based on blog discussions on the internet forum Reddit. While many linguistic phenomena can give insights into evaluativity, we investigated the use of a wide selection of evaluative adjectives (more specifically, thick adjectives) to gain a more comprehensive picture of the degree of evaluativity in the legal domain. Our analysis shows that legal professionals use thick terms less evaluatively than laypeople, which suggests that legal texts are less evaluative than ordinary discussions. This result, more generally, supports the philosophical idea that thick concepts may vary in their evaluative intensity."

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Projekt

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Návaznosti

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Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

"Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Law"

ISBN

978-1-350-26016-0

Počet stran výsledku

32

Strana od-do

1-32

Počet stran knihy

266

Název nakladatele

Norwegian School of Economics

Místo vydání

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Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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