An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics: Language in Evidence has established itself as the
essential textbook written by leading authorities in this expanding field. The second edition …

Глава 1. Теоретические основы изучения дискурса правовой сферы 1.1
Многогранность дискурса и его свойства............................................... 1.2 Юридический и …

Mitigation plays an important role in various social activities. It involves emotional, strategic,
and pragmatic processing. This paper presents an activity-based framework for empirical …

This study uses an interactional pragmatic approach to examine impoliteness in Turkish
High Criminal Court proceedings, offering an alternative perspective compared to the Anglo …

This paper proposes a Goffman-inspired framework for capturing lawyers' facework
activities. Goffman's (1967: 14) three levels of face threat–intentional, incidental and …

Hedging can play a particularly important role in nuancing language in such language-
dependent disciplines as law. This article presents a corpus-based study of the use of …

This paper is a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of the use of the word respect by the
main advocates in the High Court and Supreme Court hearings of R v Secretary of State for …

In this introductory essay, I outline some of the studies which have already explored
facework and im/politeness in legal contexts: specifically, Lakoff (Multilingua 8: 101–29 …

The present paper aims at exploring the pivotal role of evaluative phraseology in judges'
discourse, typified in the legal genre of the judgment. This contrastive cross-language study …

Research on legal discourse has developed according to a variety of perspectives. As for
descriptive accounts, two approaches are noteworthy. Firstly, Anglophone scholars have …