A Bilingual, Bicultural Approach to Detachment and Appraisal in the Law: Tracing Impersonality and Interaction in English and Spanish Legal Op-Eds

Llopis, María Ángeles Orts

doi:10.1007/s11196-018-9561-1

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“…To test how evaluation is carried out in the legal field, I undertook a series of contrastive works within the framework of appraisal theory between two languages, English and Spanish, (Orts, 2018a and2018b) on a corpus of 40 legal opinion columns, extracted from two newspapers of national and international quality and prestige, El País and The New York Times. The legal opinion columns (in this specific case, taken from the Tribuna section of El País and from Law and Legislation in the NYT) are written by specialists and combine journalistic opinion on the one hand, and current legal issues, on the other.…”

Section: Persuasion and Dissemination In Legal Textsmentioning

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Emotions in specialised genres: Power, manipulation and persuasion from the Affect Spectrum Theory

Llopis

2022

ELUA

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This paper seeks to examine professional genres from a novel perspective linking social constructivism and basic emotion theory, making the assumption that emotions are intrinsically social, and that social phenomena (such as professional communities) have an emotional nature (TenHouten, 2021). Thus, we aim to consider the constructive role of emotions in the creation and development of specialised texts (occasionally focusing specifically on the legal field), and, in turn, on the professional communities from which these texts emerge. Our work builds on the socio-evolutionary theory of emotions, or affect-spectrum theory (AST), which is developed in dissonance with other Cartesian and rational-choice models that set reason and emotion in opposition and assert that society only progresses to the extent that the former can control, suppress and triumph over the latter. Specifically, it is our underlying hypothesis that specialised and professional communication is articulated around emotions –and power, manipulation and persuasion, among other negative or positive emotional expressions. Thus, textual mechanisms or genres, as communicative instruments of specialised communities reveal the tensions that occur centripetally or centrifugally, i.e., inwards or outwards from that community. They do so from an agonistic relational model, in a centripetal tension that promotes agency through coercion and/or manipulation, or from a hedonistic relational model, in a centrifugal tension where interpersonal relationships of persuasion and dissemination are established in order to engage in communal relationships.

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Section: Persuasion and Dissemination In Legal Textsmentioning

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Emotions in specialised genres: Power, manipulation and persuasion from the Affect Spectrum Theory

Llopis

2022

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“…In addition, although some scholars have recently examined legal texts in search for evidence on the deployment of evaluative meanings (Finnegan, 2010;Go d -Roszkowski, 2017;Mazzi, 2010), only a fairly limited number of comparative studies have been pursued using corpus -Roszkowski (2014) and, more recently, Orts (2018) acknowledge the relevance of this feature of language and the differences across legal systems (American v. Italian, and British v. Spanish, respectively). This research is therefore intended to try and bridge this gap.…”

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Exploring the Unexpected in Legal Discourse: A Corpus-Based Contrastive Analysis of Spanish and British Judgments on Immigration

Pérez¹

2019

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In spite of being popularly regarded as examples of objectivity, two collections of Spanish and British judicial decisions related to the search terms migration, immigration and their Spanish equivalents were examined in search for evidence of the use of evaluative vocabulary, which appears to be considerably significant judging by the amount of such lexical items found in both corpora. This research thus introduces a contrastive corpus-based study of two legal corpora through the replication of the appraisal theory model. The frequency lists from both corpora, obtained using the software Lancsbox (Brezina et al., 2015) were compared by examining and classifying those vocabulary items amongst the top 2,500 types in the lists using the taxonomy provided by appraisal theory. The findings show that the British dataset contains a greater proportion of evaluative vocabulary, particularly as regards the category affect within the appraisal system. Such findings could be related to the very nature of its legal system, where the law is said to be judge-made, leaving greater freedom for the expression of stance as opposed to the Spanish system, which is codified and may somehow constrain legal actors in the way in which they convey their attitude towards the propositional content of legal texts.

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A Bilingual, Bicultural Approach to Detachment and Appraisal in the Law: Tracing Impersonality and Interaction in English and Spanish Legal Op-Eds

Cited by 2 publications

References 17 publications

Emotions in specialised genres: Power, manipulation and persuasion from the Affect Spectrum Theory

Emotions in specialised genres: Power, manipulation and persuasion from the Affect Spectrum Theory

Exploring the Unexpected in Legal Discourse: A Corpus-Based Contrastive Analysis of Spanish and British Judgments on Immigration

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