Legal Communication of Chinese Judiciary : A Discourse-based View

Zhengrui Han

ISBN 10: 3034311990 / ISBN 13: 9783034311991

Published by Peter Lang, 2012

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - China's society and economy have been developing remarkably fast over the past three decades, and accordingly it makes continuing effort to conduct a judicial reform in order to upgrade its comparatively static legal system. The judicial reform changes a number of aspects of Chinese litigation practices. This research aims at describing, analyzing and explaining some of the ways Chinese judges change their discursive construction of civil judgments because of the on-going judicial reform. A variety of data are used in this book: a medium-sized corpus of Chinese civil judgments, lawyers and judges' accounts, written laws (statutes), legal news reports, and more. It is intended to produce an empirical description of Chinese judges' adjudicative practices in the process of hearing trials, weighing up parties' arguments, quoting the law and fi nally delivering judicial opinions, which may be of interest for scholars and researchers in the fi eld of discourse analysis, applied linguistics and contemporary China studies.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Legal Communication of Chinese Judiciary : A Discourse-based View
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3034311990
• ISBN 13: 9783034311991
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 210W x 148H x 14D millimeters 210 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 14 millimeters depth
• Weight: 316 grams

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Synopsis

China’s society and economy have been developing remarkably fast over the past three decades, and accordingly it makes continuing effort to conduct a judicial reform in order to upgrade its comparatively static legal system. The judicial reform changes a number of aspects of Chinese litigation practices. This research aims at describing, analyzing and explaining some of the ways Chinese judges change their discursive construction of civil judgments because of the on-going judicial reform. A variety of data are used in this book: a medium-sized corpus of Chinese civil judgments, lawyers and judges’ accounts, written laws (statutes), legal news reports, and more. It is intended to produce an empirical description of Chinese judges’ adjudicative practices in the process of hearing trials, weighing up parties’ arguments, quoting the law and fi nally delivering judicial opinions, which may be of interest for scholars and researchers in the fi eld of discourse analysis, applied linguistics and contemporary China studies.

About the Author

Zhengrui Han acquired his PhD from the Department of English, City University of Hong Kong and now is an English lecturer in the College of Foreign Studies, Jinan University (Guangzhou, China). He publishes in the Journal of Pragmatics, Discourse & Society and International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law (IJSLL).