The structural format and rhetorical variation of writing Chinese judicial opinions
| Autor: | Yunfeng Ge, Vijay K. Bhatia, Zhengrui Han |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
| Předmět: |
060201 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language Dialogic media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050301 education Judicial opinion Rhetorical modes 06 humanities and the arts Language and Linguistics Epistemology Philosophy Statutory law 0602 languages and literature Rhetorical question Sociology Ideology 0503 education Legal profession Legal writing media_common |
| Zdroj: | Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA). :463-488 |
| ISSN: | 2406-4238 1018-2101 |
| DOI: | 10.1075/prag.17013.ge |
| Popis: | As Chinese legal system follows a statutory tradition, the writing of Chinese judicial opinions is normally considered as an invariant sequential process of stating the law, presenting the fact, and finally providing the conclusion. The official ideology is further reinforced by the fact that Chinese judges need to follow various authoritative writing guidelines and templates prescribed by the official bodies of legal profession. This paper examines to what extent this ideology is a trustworthy description, and to what extent it is only an imagined myth related to the rhetorical practices of Chinese legal profession. Theoretical constructs employed in the study are genre, text type, and rhetorical modes, and analytical data include exemplar judicial opinions, intertextual legislative documents, and insiders’ accounts. According to the research findings, while the official ideology remains a strong shaping force in the composing of Chinese judicial opinions, Chinese judges do take compelling moves to add dialogic elements to the traditionally monologue-dominated discursive sphere of legal writing. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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