The Discursive Construction of Legal Reasoning

A Genre Study of the United States Supreme Court Opinions
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-981-953039-7
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 574 g

Reihe: The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series

This book presents a fine-grained and dynamic description of the discursive construction of legal reasoning in judicial opinions, drawing upon the Systemic Functional linguistic perspective of language and genre. It aims to explore the discursive resources in constructing legal reasoning across metafunctions, at different levels, and of various sizes.

This book contributes to the linguistic understanding of legal reasoning in judicial opinions and extends genre studies to large texts with complex and hierarchical structures. It presents an applicable model for a deep analysis of relations between legal reasoning and language. The findings of this research may also provide subject-specific knowledge for common law students in case reading and learning. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lu, Nan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fachsprachen
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Literature Review.- Chapter 3: Analytical Framework.- Chapter 4: Methodology.- Chapter 5: Constructing Legal Reasoning: A Particulate Realization.- Chapter 6: Constructing Legal Reasoning: A Periodic Realization.- Chapter 7: Constructing Legal Reasoning: A Prosodic Realization.- Chapter 8: Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Lu Nan is currently a lecturer at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. He has obtained his PhD in linguistics and applied linguistics . His research interests include legal discourse analysis, systemic functional linguistics and genre studies and has published widely in the fields.