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OUT NOW: Guest Editor David Wright introduces the Special Issue on Corpus perspectives on #LegalDiscourse

Wright draws out the themes explored across the papers in the issue, as indicative of the cutting edge of forensic linguistics – showing what corpus studies can do!

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April 3, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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📢 Call for Papers: Diachronic Approaches to Legal Discourse on Minority Rights
📓 Just. Journal of Language Rights and Minorities
✨ Guest Editors: Talita Serpa & Beatriz Curti-Contessoto
👉 Details here turia.uv.es/index.php/JU...
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November 19, 2024 at 3:11 PM
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OUT NOW: Jamie McKeown and Haojie Deng show how corpus tools can assist in the exploration of semantic frames, as investigated in leave to appeal decisions from Hong Kong

This paper will appear as part of our Special Issue on Corpus Perspectives on #LegalDiscourse

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A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of (Dis)Interest and (Un)Importance frames in leave to appeal decisions of the HKSAR appellate courts
Abstract This study presents a corpus-assisted discourse analysis examining the semantic frames of (Dis)Interest and (Un)Importance in leave to appeal decisions of the HKSAR appellate courts. With the...
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March 3, 2026 at 9:51 AM
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🎉🎓 Congrats to Rakhiya Toxanbayeva (Al-Farabi Kazakh National University) on defending your #PhD! Your hard work and passion have truly paid off. So proud of you—this is just the beginning! 🌟🚀 Excited to see what’s next! 💫 P.S. — Another step for 🇪🇪 🤝 🇰🇿 collaboration! #legaldiscourse #proudsupervisor
September 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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NEW FROM 55(3)

"“And I do think you have to give a kind of yes or no answer to that question”: Supportive alignment in US Supreme Court oral arguments" by John Terry Dundon

#InstitutionalDiscourse #LegalDiscourse #SCOTUS #MultipartyInteraction #Alignment

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“And I do think you have to give a kind of yes or no answer to that question”: Supportive alignment in US Supreme Court oral arguments | Language in Society | Cambridge Core
“And I do think you have to give a kind of yes or no answer to that question”: Supportive alignment in US Supreme Court oral arguments - Volume 55 Issue 3
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July 6, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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NEW ON FIRSTVIEW

"“And I do think you have to give a kind of yes or no answer to that question”: Supportive alignment in US Supreme Court oral arguments" by John Terry Dundon

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#InstitutionalDiscourse #LegalDiscourse #SCOTUS #MultipartyInteraction #Alignment
“And I do think you have to give a kind of yes or no answer to that question”: Supportive alignment in US Supreme Court oral arguments | Language in Society | Cambridge Core
“And I do think you have to give a kind of yes or no answer to that question”: Supportive alignment in US Supreme Court oral arguments
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December 4, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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OUT NOW: the next paper to appear in our Special Issue on Corpus Perspectives on #LegalDiscourse

Le Cheng, Xiuli Liu & Jian Li present a continuum of stance as derived from a cross-genre examination of stance expressions in legislation, judgments and legal academic articles

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Continuum of stance in law
Abstract Stance is deep-rooted in law, where legal values can never stand in a vacuum. Despite a growing body of literature on stance in legal genres, cross-genre examinations conducted from a corpus-...
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March 2, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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OUT NOW: Davide Mazzi explores argument structures in a corpus of Supreme Court of Ireland’s judgments on human rights, based on indicators of pragmatic argumentation.

This paper appears as part of our Special Issue on Corpus Perspectives on #LegalDiscourse

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“…animated by a number of fundamental principles”
Abstract The aim of this paper is to combine a quantitative analysis of indicators of pragmatic argumentation with a qualitative investigation of the argument scheme in a corpus of Supreme Court of Ir...
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February 16, 2026 at 9:39 AM