List of Contents

INTRODUCTION  11

PART I. THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS  15

CHAPTER ONE. CONCESSION: AN OVERVIEW OF APPROACHES  17

1.1. Semantic-syntactic approach to concession  17
1.1.1. Defining concessive connection  17
1.2 CONCESSION as a relation in Rhetorical Structure Theory  28
1.2.1. Text relations in RST  28
1.2.2. Defining CONCESSION in RST  31
1.3 Discourse-pragmatic concept of Concession  35
1.3.1. Defi ning Concession as an interactional sequence  35
1.3.2. Concessive moves  40
1.3.3. Concessive schemata  49
1.3.4. Pragmatic marking of Concession  55

CHAPTER TWO. JUDICIAL ARGUMENTATION: LEGAL AND LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVES  59

2.1. Subject-matter of argumentative discourse studies  59
2.2. Historical background of argumentative discourse studies  61
2.3. Defining legal and judicial argumentation  63
2.4. Theories of legal argumentation  65
2.4.1. Historical perspective on legal argumentation  66
2.4.2. Pragma-dialectical perspective on legal argumentation  73
2.4.2.1. General assumptions of the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation  74
2.4.2.2. Application of the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation in the legal context  77

CHAPTER THREE. ANALYSING GENRE: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES    83

3.1. Defining discourse  83
3.2. Discourse community revisited  87
3.3. Genre  90
3.3.1. Defining genre  90
3.3.2. Analysing genre  93
3.4. Genre-based view of legal discourse  96
3.5. Analysing the genre of judgment  103

PART II. THE REALISATION OF CONCESSION IN THE GENRE OF JUDGMENT  109

CHAPTER FOUR. CONCEPT OF THE STUDY AND THE DATA  111

4.1. Research objectives  111
4.2. Research questions  112
4.3. Procedure  113
4.4. Corpus design and the source of data  114
4.5. Contextual analysis of the genre of judgment  118
4.5.1. Generic structure of judgments in the corpus  125

CHAPTER FIVE. ANALYSIS OF THE DATA  129

5.1. Concessive schemata  129
5.1.1. Identification of monologic schemata: pseudo-dyadic and monadic patterns  129
5.2. Concessive moves  133
5.2.1. Identifi cation of moves: acknowledgments and counterclaims  133
5.2.2. Distribution of acknowledgments and counterclaims  135
5.3. Signalling associated with Concession  139
5.3.1. Categories of Concessive signals recognised in the corpus  140
5.3.2. Frequency of occurrence of Concessive signals in the corpus  149
5.3.3. Distribution of Concessive signals in the moves  153
5.3.4. Co-occurrence of Concessive signals  159
5.4. Metafunctions of Concessive moves  164
5.4.1. Ideational metafunctions of Concessive moves  165
5.4.2. Interpersonal metafunctions of Concessive moves  169
5.4.3. Textual metafunctions of Concessive moves  177
5.4.4. Function-form correlation: Co-occurrence of Concessive signals and metafunctions  180
5.5. Corpus data against previous findings  189

CONCLUSIONS  203

LIST OF FIGURES  211

LIST OF TABLES  213

APPENDICES
Appendix 1a  215
Appendix 1b  217
Appendix 2  219
REFERENCES 225