Legal and general: Towards a genre analysis of newspaper law reports  

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Badger, Richard

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: English for Specific Purposes (Full Text) vol. 22 no. 3 (2003), page 249-264.
Fulltext: 22_03_Badger.pdf (165.12KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/ESP/22 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Law reports are key texts for law students and so should be key materials for teachers of English for Academic Legal Purposes (EALP). However, there are problems with the use of law reports in the EALP classroom. Firstly, official law reports, as opposed to those that appear in newspapers, have a relatively restricted distribution. Secondly and more importantly, they are long, complex texts unfamiliar to most language teachers, and so the ways in which they should be used in the EALP classroom are not always obvious. One source of clarification is descriptions of law reports. However, most descriptions of the genre have been limited to official law reports, and these descriptions have only covered textual aspects of law reports. As a result, they have tended to overlook the impact of social and cultural elements in the way law reports are used by the legal discourse community. The current study addresses these issues in two ways. Firstly, it focuses on the more widely available newspaper law reports and, secondly, it offers a description which draws on Martin's English Text (1992) context of culture in order to identify important social and cultural factors and understand how they might be linked to textual factors. More specifically, as the main purpose for which law students read law reports is to identify the ratio decidendi, the study indicates how the lexico-grammar and text structure of newspaper law reports may guide the identification of the ratio decidendi.

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