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Giventheforegoing,thecurrentinvestigationoccupiesanicheleftbyre-
searchersstudyingtheimportanceoflinguisticfactorsinjudicialsettingsand,
inparticular,itcomplementsotherexplorationsfocusingonmarkersofjudi-
cialstanceingeneral.Tothisend,thegoalofthepresentstudyistoprovide
afullerpictureofjudicialdiscourseand,selectingthenotionofconcessivity
initsdiscourse-pragmaticdimensionastertiumcomparationis,todescribethe
realisationofConcessionfromacontrastiveperspective.Morespecifically,the
researchraisesquestionsastowhetherjudgmentswrittenintwoIndo-European
languagessuchasEnglishandPolishfollowthesameargumentativeschemata
andemploythesamediscourse-pragmaticmeanstomarkit,andwhetherCon-
cessionperformssimilarfunctionsinthetwosubcorporaanalysed.Inaddition,
thestudyisintendedasapointofdepartureforfurtherinvestigationscentred
aroundlinguisticvariation,especiallythatobservedinthejudicialvarietiesof
EnglishandPolish,respectively.
Thebookiscomposedoftwomajorcomponents:PartIpresentingtheoretical
considerationsandPartIIreportingtheresultsofanempiricalstudy,followedby
Conclusionssummarisingthefindingsandsuggestingtheirapplications.
PartIconsistsofthreechapters.ChapterOneconstitutesanoverviewofap-
proachestothestudyofconcessivity.Itstartswithasurveyoftraditionaldefini-
tionsofconcessiveconnection,especiallyasseenbyEnglish,PolishandGer-
manresearchersworkingwithinthesemantic-syntacticparadigm.Againstthis
background,thedefinitionofCONCESSIONadvancedbyRhetoricalStructure
Theoryscholarsispresented,withemphasisplacedontheroleofthisrhetorical
relationinthestructuringofmonologictexts.Adoptedastheanalyticalframe-
workforthecurrentstudy,thediscourse-pragmaticconceptofConcessionis,on
theotherhand,describedinthethirdsubchapter,addressinginparticular:the
understandingofConcessionasaninteractionalsequenceofmoves,identifica-
tionofthemovesthemselvesaswellasvariousconfigurationsofthemovesin
theformofConcessiveschemataidentifiableinspokenandwrittendiscourse.
ThesaidsubchapteralsoshedslightonthepragmaticsignallingofConcession,
withadistinctionmadeintosyndeticandasyndeticlinkingandattentiondrawn
tostancemarkerssubsumingtruth-evaluatingelements.
ChapterTwois,inturn,devotedtoargumentationtheories,withprominence
giventoframeworksdesignedforananalysisofjudicialargumentation.Asthis
chapteroffersbothlegalandlanguage-orientedperspectives,toprovideasuf-
ficientbackground,itbeginswiththedescriptionofthesubjectmatterofargu-
mentativestudiesandsketchesageneraloutlineofthehistoricalrootsofargu-
mentativediscoursestudies.Next,thenotionoflegalargumentationisdiscussed
andattentionisdrawnespeciallytoitsjudicialcomponent.Inthiscontext,as-
sumptionsunderlyingvarioustheoriesoflegalargumentationareexplained,
startingwiththehistoricalperspectiveandfinishingwiththepragma-dialectical
model.Thelatter,combiningrhetoricalanddialecticalaspects,issituatedas
aframeworkappliedinthefieldofgeneralargumentationtheoryaswellas
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