Exploring the Local Grammar of Evaluation: The Case of Adjectival Patterns in American and Italian Judicial Discourse

Pontrandolfo, Gianluca; Goźdź-Roszkowski, Stanisław

dc.contributor.author	Pontrandolfo, Gianluca	en
dc.contributor.author	Goźdź-Roszkowski, Stanisław	en
dc.date.accessioned	2015-06-12T12:37:43Z
dc.date.available	2015-06-12T12:37:43Z
dc.date.issued	2014-06-17	en
dc.identifier.issn	1731-7533	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11089/9692
dc.description.abstract	Based on a 2-million word bilingual comparable corpus of American and Italian judgments, this paper tests the applicability of a local grammar to study evaluative phraseology in judicial discourse in English and Italian. In particular, the study compares the use of two patterns: v-link + ADJ + that pattern / copula + ADJ + che and v-link + ADJ + to-infinitive pattern / copula + ADJ + verbo all’infinito in the disciplinary genre of criminal judgments delivered by the US Supreme Court and the Italian Corte Suprema di Cassazione. It is argued that these two patterns represent a viable and efficient diagnostic tool for retrieving instances of evaluative language and they represent an ideal starting point and a relevant unit of analysis for a cross-language analysis of evaluation in domainrestricted specialised discourse. Further, the findings provided shed light on important interactions occurring among major interactants involved in the judicial discourse.	en
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Research in Language;12	en
dc.rights	This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/	en
dc.subject	evaluation	en
dc.subject	judicial discourse	en
dc.subject	legal language	en
dc.subject	local grammar	en
dc.subject	pattern	en
dc.subject	phraseology	en
dc.title	Exploring the Local Grammar of Evaluation: The Case of Adjectival Patterns in American and Italian Judicial Discourse	en
dc.page.number	71-91	en
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	Pontrandolfo Gianluca - University of Trieste, Italy	en
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	Goźdź-Roszkowski Stanisław - University of Łódź, Poland	en
dc.identifier.eissn	2083-4616
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dc.contributor.authorEmail	Pontrandolfo Gianluca - gpontrandolfo@units.it	en
dc.contributor.authorEmail	Goźdź-Roszkowski Stanisław - gozdz.roszkowski@gmail.com	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.2478/rela-2014-0014	en

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