«This volume is highly recommendable to both researchers and scholars working in the field of legal discourse and the interpersonal component of legal genres.»
(Luz Gil-Salom, Ibérica 29/2015)
«The edited volume is a highly recommendable read for everyone with an interest in knowing the state of the art in pragmatic studies of legal communication from the point of view of genres and for everyone interested in methods relevant to Legal Linguistics.»
(Jan Engberg, ESP Today, 3(2) 2015)
Interpersonality in Legal Genres
herausgegeben von Ruth Breeze, Maurizio Gotti und Carmen Sancho GuindaFew concepts in Discourse Studies are so versatile and intricate and have been so frequently contested as
interpersonality.
This construct offers ample terrain for new research, since it can be viewed using a range of diverse theoretical frameworks, employing a variety of analytical tools and social perspectives.
Studies on the relationship between writer/reader and speaker/audience in the legal field are still scarce, dispersed, and limited to a narrow range of genres and a restricted notion of
interpersonality
, since they are most often confined to modality and the Gricean cooperative principles.
This volume is meant to help bridge this gap. Its chapters show the realisation and distribution of interpersonal features in specific legal genres. The aim is to achieve an expansion of the concept of
interpersonality
, which besides modality, Grice’s maxims and other traditionally interpersonal features, might comprise or relate to ideational and textual issues like narrative disclosure, typography, rhetorical variation, or Plain English, among others.
