The category of soundness and its lexical exponents based on the justifications of the adjudications of Białystok appellate courts Cover Image

Kategoria słuszności i jej leksykalne wykładniki na podstawie uzasadnień wyroków białostockich sądów apelacyjnych
The category of soundness and its lexical exponents based on the justifications of the adjudications of Białystok appellate courts

Author(s): Daniel Podoliński
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: pragmatics; semantics; linguistics; adjudication; appeal courts; soundness

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to present ways of appellate courts to assess judgments of lower courts. The source of the analyzed linguistic material are judgments of the Appellate Court and District Court in Bialystok. The overriding criterion for this assessment is the value referred to as “fairness”. The considerations concern the ways of expressing the assessment of the utterance in such a species-specific type of text, which is the justification of the court’s judgment. My goal is to initially identify lexical exponents of equity in a few selected texts and their typological ordering.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 18
  • Page Range: 181-195
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish