Retoryka i dyskurs sędziowski – o relacji koncesywności w uzasadnieniach wyroków
Rhetoric and judicial discourse. The concessive relation in legal justification

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on the rhetorical and performative aspects of judicial discourse, highlighting in particular the generic properties of judgments and the dialogic nature of legal justification. Using the tripartite model of concession (Couper-Kuhlen and Thompson; Barth-Weingarten) designed for the analysis of spoken interaction, it demonstrates that legal justification exhibits features of dialogic discourse – including the presence of anticipatory rebuttal (anteoccupatio) and acknowledgment (concessio) – and may therefore be interpreted as a “mute dialogue” with the evoked adversary.

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