CONCESSIVE SCHEMATA IN JUDICIAL ARGUMENTATION: A DIALOGUE IN A MONOLOGUE?
CONCESSIVE SCHEMATA IN JUDICIAL ARGUMENTATION: A DIALOGUE IN A MONOLOGUE?

Author(s): Magdalena Szczyrbak
Subject(s): Language studies, Semantics, Stylistics, Court case
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: concession; legal discourse; judicial argumentation; EU discourse;
Summary/Abstract: While concessivity has been approached from various perspectives, the semantic-syntactic model being the most frequent one, the situational context of this linguistic phenomenon seems to have received little attention. Drawing on the interactional tripartite concept of Concession, the author contributes a genre-based analysis of this discourse-pragmatic relation in the context of dialogicality of legal decision-making. The study focuses on monologic Concessive schemata found in judicial argumentation as well as the interactional functions of two Concessive moves: acknowledgments and counterclaims. As expected, the findings suggest that judges, like speakers, are aware of and follow the dialogic pattern of Concession found in spoken language.

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