Argumentation in legal discourse: A contrastive analysis of concession in Philippine and American Supreme Court decisions
The Supreme Court, being the highest deciding body that ends legal controversies, drafts decisions that eventually become part and parcel of the constitution that protects the rights of citizens. This paper examines the signals of concession in Philippine and American Supreme Court decisions, specif...
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Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Letters, University of Santo Tomas
2017-12-01
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| Series: | Asian Journal of English Language Studies (AJELS) |
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| Online Access: | https://ajels.ust.edu.ph/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/5-Argumentation-in-legal-discourse-A-contrastive-analysis-of-concession.pdf |