TY - BOOK AU - Ruth Breeze AU - Maurizio Gotti AU - Carmen Sancho Guinda PY - 2014 CY - Lausanne, Switzerland PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 1424-8689 SN - 9783035107258 TI - Interpersonality in Legal Genres DO - 10.3726/978-3-0351-0725-8 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1053130 N2 - Few concepts in Discourse Studies are so versatile and intricate and have been so frequently contested as interpersonality. This construct offers ample terrain for new research, since it can be viewed using a range of diverse theoretical frameworks, employing a variety of analytical tools and social perspectives. Studies on the relationship between writer/reader and speaker/audience in the legal field are still scarce, dispersed, and limited to a narrow range of genres and a restricted notion of interpersonality, since they are most often confined to modality and the Gricean cooperative principles. This volume is meant to help bridge this gap. Its chapters show the realisation and distribution of interpersonal features in specific legal genres. The aim is to achieve an expansion of the concept of interpersonality, which besides modality, Grice’s maxims and other traditionally interpersonal features, might comprise or relate to ideational and textual issues like narrative disclosure, typography, rhetorical variation, or Plain English, among others. KW - Grice¿s maxims, narrative disclosure, typography, modality, rhetorical variation LA - English ER -