Object's details: Exploring the Local Grammar of Evaluation: The Case of Adjectival Patterns in American and Italian Judicial Discourse

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Title:
Exploring the Local Grammar of Evaluation: The Case of Adjectival Patterns in American and Italian Judicial Discourse
Creator:
Pontrandolfo, Gianluca;
Goźdź-Roszkowski, Stanisław
Contributor:
Pontrandolfo Gianluca - University of Trieste, Italy;
Goźdź-Roszkowski Stanisław - University of Łódź, Poland;
Pontrandolfo Gianluca - gpontrandolfo@units.it;
Goźdź-Roszkowski Stanisław - gozdz.roszkowski@gmail.com
Description:
Based on a 2-million word bilingual comparable corpus of American and Italian judgments, this paper tests the applicability of a local grammar to study evaluative phraseology in judicial discourse in English and Italian. In particular, the study compares the use of two patterns: v-link + ADJ + that pattern / copula + ADJ + che and v-link + ADJ + to-infinitive pattern / copula + ADJ + verbo all’infinito in the disciplinary genre of criminal judgments delivered by the US Supreme Court and the Italian Corte Suprema di Cassazione. It is argued that these two patterns represent a viable and efficient diagnostic tool for retrieving instances of evaluative language and they represent an ideal starting point and a relevant unit of analysis for a cross-language analysis of evaluation in domainrestricted specialised discourse. Further, the findings provided shed light on important interactions occurring among major interactants involved in the judicial discourse.
Object availability:
free access
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This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.;
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0
Date:
2015.06.12;
2014.06.17
Format:
application/pdf
Publisher:
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Relation:
Research in Language;12
Subject:
evaluation;
judicial discourse;
legal language;
local grammar;
pattern;
phraseology
Identifier:
1731-7533;
http://hdl.handle.net/11089/9692 ;
2083-4616;
10.2478/rela-2014-0014
Data provider:
Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

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