In this paper I analyze some of the texts used in the legal procedures of divorce in England and Wales...
Keywords: critical discourse analysis, systemic functional linguistics, language and power, family law, identity, bureaucratic discourse
12/2006 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de GruyterAlthough the United States Supreme Court plays a pivotal role in American government and American law, its opinions have seldom been the subject of linguistic analysis...
Keywords: United States Supreme Court, constitutional law, rhetorical structure, critical discourse analysis
03/2007 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de Gruyter