Overview
Description
Theories of legal language in contemporary criticism, philosophy of actions, sociology of law, psychology of discourse, and structure of English; their uses in judicial practice.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring - Even Years
Terms
spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- recognize and critically evaluate story structures embedded in legal concepts and case types.
- demonstrate mastery of techniques of textual analysis which allow judges to evaluate linguistic evidence in the courtroom and the linguistic features of legal analysis.
- identify, analyze and define core stories (hence standards for judgment) with respect to contract, family law, difference, fairness, contingency, agency and gender.
- demonstrate mastery of principles and analytic techniques advanced by new criticism, formalism, structuralism Marxism and post structuralism, then evaluate their relevance to legal analysis and judicial process.
- demonstrate mastery of philosophical and linguistic principles of agency and action; consider those principles with respect to rights, responsibilities and defenses.
- write a prospects for an academic article applying an analysis technique of theory studies to a court-related language problem.